Ricochet

Yesterday my troubles seemed so far away

And now there's nothing left to do but watch the choices slip away

And all the voices ricochet ? our conversation disappears

In recrimination ? voices ricochet ? they're just

Words in the distance, like birds inside my head, and

The water runs red ? you're a

Stone on the windscreen, you shatter the world ahead

Voices ricochet ? you can picture a big

'thirteen', try to extinguish me

Relinquish me from the damage

It's only mortality...

It's the echoes of carnage

Now the view is all tarnished ? the rest is just wreckage

The sky's a varnish, furnished with thoughts of flight

And the pain still visible in light and sound and sight

Dismiss the sky ? voices ricochet

Grip is precarious

There's various ways the path of truth can bury us

Too many variables, too much chit-chat

Too much of this and that

Too much zig-zag, yin yang, yak yak

I'm all right, Jack, pull up the plank, I'm aboard

Fall on your sword ? a humming repetitive

Feels like a sedative, nerves are the last to decay

Don't worry, it'll fade away

Voices ricochet ? our conversation disappears

In recrimination ? voices ricochet ? they're just

Words in the distance, like birds inside my head

And all the manacles that bind, the pinnacles you climb

To the background of a cynical 'who' and 'what' and 'why'

And 'why not?' 'Scuse me while I dismiss the sky

Voices ricochet ? dismiss the sky