Sleeping At Last - Smell lyrics

Is this the part when the brain scans show where memories reside? Some ambiguous shape in me suddenly producing light Triggered like a tripwire, every time I breathe it in Isn't it strange that a Lilac tree is what unlocks where I've been? Like a time machine rebuilds the past, our memories return Like remembering the ashes before we burn It is the friction that lights the match Desperate attempts that make it last So hold my breath for as long as I can Before long, the wind swells in Starting a fight I could never win But I'll hold on as long as I can It finishes against my will The light goes out, my heart goes still And just like that, I believe in ghosts Time and space are at my back Performing disappearing acts Now I can escape the smell of smoke Research says that the only way to keep memories intact Is to lock 'em away and close the doors to countless years of past I guess that explains why the strangest things can conjure up the past And forgotten time will find its long way back As thin as air, as light as snow Some combination of the unknown It doesn't matter, I just know I need more Cause I feel like I've been sleeping through the better part of this Laying dormant through an endless winter that doesn't even exist It's gravity in an hourgla** Responsible for the avalanche And the loudest silence that I've ever heard Memory clear as a bell A story that I will try to tell Maybe this time without words