I've been sitting up drinking all the words I said There's a shark on my ceiling and a salesman in my head You're a hypnotist, like a highway in the night I know there's red outside but I'm stuck in black and white If I could talk to you If I could get to you If I could break the beast who's take you I'd give back the ghost of winter to the snow All these fallen leaves I have tried to wish away But I cannot move what time cannot decay You know my love is here in these shards of broken glass Still I cannot see the woman from the mask If I could talk to you, if I could get to you If I could break the beast who's taken you I would make a deal with someone down below... But either way somebody's got to go I see this veil has covered up your eyes Baby I ache to see what you're doing on the other side You've been hiding in the coral of your mind I've been looking for the truth without a light Now left my sacred book out in the rain I gave all my bread to a bum without a name If I could talk to you, if I could get to you If I could break the beast who's taken you I would win what mortal men could never know Oh but either way... somebody's got to to