Echoes Across a Bowl of Tears - A Silent Film

Are the rocks underneath your pillow

keeping you from sleeping?

Are the ghosts at the foot of the bed

keeping you from breathing?

Is the voice in the back of your head

keeping you from hearing?

Are the words that we never said

Becoming…

Echoes across a bowl of tears — will we

Scrape the means to cross the bowl of tears?

Passengers adrift a bowl of tears — will be

A guilty vessel on a bowl of tears

Are the weeds underneath your window

keeping you from singing?

Is the lock on the back of your door

keeping you from leaving?

Are the hands on the back of your neck

keeping you from screaming?

Are the words that you never meant

Becoming…

In a frantic attempt to outwit death

We took our coffin ship to the water’s edge

Wild Beasts in pursuit

Wild Beasts in pursuit

Scraping the means to traverse the bowl

As we boarded our ships in guilty droves

Teardrops overflow

Teardrops overflow