in the cold light of dawn awoke in an empty room when everything found was lost like a loose tooth, like a teaspoon someone stole all the clocks now we can't tell the time I noticed you staring up at the night sky, at the night but all I see is strange as night dissolves into day and the curtain falls on the primal scene and all you feel is breath playing scales on your neck for a crooked song in a minor key wait at the winter's edge where we'll meet again and we'll see our old lies come true fingers on fragile tines till we lose our minds and you break the bonds that keep you in line someone excites your nerves defuses your every mines someone's been throwing rocks at the beehive, at the beehive someone tampered with our brakes someone glued up the locks we were weaving in and out of lanes coming full stop on the blacktop when the pressure dropped someone broke all the beds now we don't need to rest our glowing bodies never sleep and we can't leave this mess and all we do is stand with buried heads in the sand 'cuz the day is long, and the light recedes and all I ask is please be strong and right, Emily and I'll play along, long as you need wait at the winter's edge and you'll understand there's a freezing soul who needs you sing me a slow sad song till my hearing's gone and you break the ties that lead you screaming I had no choice till I lose my voice and the sound of thunder bleeds through the noise