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Lonely white;

the only little light I know

is falling like a memory on the open road;

a memory of a meaning

that I never heard long enough,

leaving what I never learned.

Leaving what I never learned.

Holding on, cradled to the bruise-black sky;

swollen with the secrets of a living lie.

Pour me out like silver in a common world.

Lonely white;

healing like I never hurt.

I unfolded my life to a dream

beside that other ocean;

but I’m tied to the lines that must lead me

somewhere where I don’t know why.

And tonight, there’s nothing that

can reach me in the world outside.

It’s just another vast, aching hunger;

an emptiness of another kind.

And tonight, there’s nothing beneath me,

but the solid earth and the endless miles.

Now only this –

Whatever you leave me,

you leave me alive.