I knew it was over When you gave me a glimpse into your eyes And nothing was returned No bridges to cross From your silence to mine No rumour of sorrow From the strangers in your mind

Where do you go In the daylight of all your fears Do they sharpen memories To remind you now How losing really feels Or do they foresee Something in the waters now revealed

So with all the blood rushing to my head I can’t remember a single word of my surrender

Dark water is coming through coming through Crawling over my old skin that you once knew If only we could exchange A memory into the moment Then we could bring back the old And conquer the new Dark water is coming coming through

Can you see it clear Though you don’t know the sound From the distance of regret If your heart could speak What language would it use Would you tell me scenes we played You were rehearsing your desires For someone you don’t yet know

Dark water is coming through coming through Crawling over my old skin that you once knew If only we could exchange A memory into the moment Then we could bring back the old And conquer the new Dark water is coming coming through, through

I cannot tell you how I feel I’m a slow death at the wheel I’m the no one you won’t claim Even when the night draws the last remains

I cannot tell you how I ache Where pain once hurt it now breaks Or of the distant raging bell That strikes every hour against my will

I cannot feel your love I cannot feel your love

I cannot bring you what you deserve I’ve only got fate left in reserve Your wild mystery I’d chase away Trading your pearl for my killer’s aim

I cannot feel your love I cannot feel your love

I cannot tell you of the dreams I’ve squandered joyriding on extremes Grasping the dying hand of desire With its cold taste of iron wire

I cannot feel your love I cannot feel your love

There are no more answers In this story we have made Where the rogue tongue loosens And our freedom is staged

The cast who wear the show Vanish inside their charade Turn their fear to money Wear their money as a veil

When you think you know them They appear as if from a dream With a face you don’t recognise Stealing your teeth for jewellery When there’s no more answers

They’ll revive our misery Spinning tales of two sides Each believing they’re the one God chose to win the fight

While they sell tomorrow From a second-hand suitcase Your tears oil their narrow wheels Like the past hasn’t once paid

Who sees beyond the curtain Behind the mirror turning wild Who’s pointing it to phoney sideshows of numb hearts When there’s no more answers

You who ask no questions Inside vague sounds of war Follow voices raging ’til You’re worshipping the sword

Those who are sleeping On the raw tear-stained winds Awaken to despair

Now bleeding inside of them When there’s no more answers

But those who watch with silent eyes Behind the scenes of their mind Those who feel their phantom limb Sensing each reply Turn their pain to freedom In the alchemy of modern times

Misery plays the band Though you never hear it Your tears hiding on the run Your voice fading through the airwaves A pale ghost inside a fog Reaching out for someone But no longer can be traced

Who are you trying to please The audience has gone home As if you never were The show you wore never came from your heart You tried to tap dance to the blues Rehearsing in a mirror That once disfigured you

Led by what you couldn’t see As if it had its own will Oh to make you feel afraid To persuade you to be possessed by your mirage While the applause gathered speed When you believed you’d turned to gold Their laughter made you bleed

Then I saw a vision appear You were walking down the aisle But you gave yourself away To the story of love you tore out of his eyes Kissed him ’til your heart turned black To capture a dream the way A painting captures the scene

Katrina unwinding carrying her scorn Fleeing the pain of our own enemy storm Holding on to freedom as if it were all we could own Riding that sleeper like a wild horse in flight Scuffing heals through every crossing we fight Was then I wondered why your eyes froze open

Caught your mirror of words reflecting back Someone I could not trust in me Bleeding me free

Your thoughts spilled over flooding your mind I heard them escape before escape was denied Teaching the meaning of shame in your confessions Your fear was something more than you could make sense You felt it cut the bone of your splintered defence As your story lay open ready to be stolen

Caught your mirror of words reflecting back Someone I could not find in me Bleeding me free

Saw your father standing with scars in his hands Showing you his injured love seek revenge Offering each blow as if they hold some kind of glory Your mother in the corner her shadow buried alive Viciously demeaning any rescue she tried As your cuts reveal loves bitter rage repeating

Caught your mirror of words reflecting back Someone I could not feel in me Bleeding me free

Knew where this was going could feel from your lie Deception promising you were so justified A fist for a fist, a wound for a wound, the loving love kills Now I look up see the ice crack your eye Convincing everyone it's tears from your cry You’re just another boy who thinks he’s red-blooded carbon

Caught your mirror of words reflecting back Someone who was lost in me Bleeding me free

Your lover’s still waiting for the reason to appear Lingering on the last moment to come clear Why you could never say why you were leaving She thinks she sees your face on the billboard of ninth Where there was a sale of a lover for a bribe Did you take the money tell me Did it feel like forgiveness

Caught your mirror of words reflecting back Someone I could not love in me Bleeding me free