You used to love how I could read your mind

Before the words had even left your lips

You called me "healer," called me "soft and kind"

While steering us toward the jagged cliffs

I took the weight of every tear you cried

I built a harbor in the pouring rain

But while I kept the world outside your side

You were the one who fed the rising pain.

You played the victim in a play I wrote

To keep you safe from every ghost you feared

But then you started cutting at the boat

And smiled as all the shoreline disappeared

You thought my patience was a floor of stone

That you could stomp on ‘til the morning light

But you forgot that I am made of foam

And I can drift away into the night.

So keep on dancing in the empty room

I’ve cleared the air and I’ve exhaled the gloom

The neon’s bright but I am out of sight

A ghost you gave a reason not to fight

Oh, can’t you feel it? The tension’s gone

I’m just the shadow of a grey-eyed dawn

I don’t hate you, I don’t feel a thing

That’s the poison that the silence brings.

Now you’re reaching for the hand you knew

But find a palm that’s smooth and cold as glass

You’re looking for the man who’d die for you

But he’s a phantom watching seasons pass

I see you crying and I feel no sting

I see you screaming and I hear a song

It’s funny how a heart can lose its wing

And still feel lighter now that it’s not strong.

You’re trying every key and every lock

To find the door that led inside my chest

But I have turned the island into rock

And put the empathy to final rest

Go find another mirror for your face

Go find another sea to fill with salt

I’ve left the wreckage of this hollow place

And I’m not staying to assign the fault.

So keep on dancing in the empty room

I’ve cleared the air and I’ve exhaled the gloom

The neon’s bright but I am out of sight

A ghost you gave a reason not to fight

Oh, can’t you feel it? The tension’s gone

I’m just the shadow of a grey-eyed dawn

I don’t hate you, I don’t feel a thing

That’s the poison that the silence brings.

You pushed the dreamer ‘til the dream went black.

Now there’s no way back.

I’m a vacuum! I’m a void!

Everything you loved, you have destroyed!

And the best part is…

I don’t even care.

Surface tension...

The intervention...

Just a rhythm in a hollow shell

I’m doing fine in this synthetic hell