Why does a memory become more sure the older it gets Why do I think I know what it is that we all need Where do the words go after we speak I'm afraid of where the words go and the silence before sleep I have watched the light pass beyond the boundary of horizon And blood pass beyond the ring of the drain Promises fade into nothing Screaming swallowed by thunder and rain If you can't face the nothing at least face me today Look my way so I can exist Look my way Isolation is a teacher of sorts and I am its student Am I looking into the void again or at a specter of me I don't want to be friends with your band I don't want to be friends Every day you can hold yourself accountable to yourself instead When I can stand no other When I can't stand myself I come to this place This darkest of wells To attempt to draw water To attempt to slake something To feel bereft of this sense Our measurements, counting nothing at all, while we prostrate ourselves for the number