Nothingness

And I heard you say that nothing good ever wants to go your way
So you take back the suicide pact and ink it on your skin
You never really knew how much you meant

And you heard me say that you never really learned what you left that day
Holding back on panic attacks, and leaving out your name
Ensuring all obituaries blank

Oh the swell of the Earth
Opened its mouth and swallowed you first
With skin on your bones, you're coming home
Your bike's out on the lawn
Passed out on the porch by early dawn

All the frays in the quilt
Unraveled all the ends of our sleepless guilt
Of all our friends that played pretend, you always laughed the most
One of many signs I should've known

You will guide the long ships away from all the shallows
You will be the lost light traced upon our shadows

Now you're laying waste to all the different ways that you've shown your grace
From trick or treats to small defeats
We felt your loss the most
Blanket shells without your inner ghost

And the cold kept you still, while you let your snowfall memories write out your will
Like blinking lights on Christmas night, your neurons LED the screen
Your nothingness meant everything to me

Now on New Years Eve, as lovers kiss each other as they count down from three
You would tesselate at the backyard gate, your soul is going - gone
We lost you long before you had moved on

Then you jumped from the edge of a different impermanence by the water's ledge
Your lungs filled with your family's love
We're drowning by the pier, in the ocean of your mother's tears

You will guide the long ships away from all the shallows
You will be the lost light traced upon our shadows

Woah-oh-oh
Woah-oh-oh

You will guide the long ships away from all the shallows
You will be the lost light traced upon our shadows

You will guide the long ships away from all the shallows
You will be the lost light traced upon our shadows

And I heard you say
(You will guide the long ships away from all the shallows)
That nothing good ever wants to go your way
(You will be the lost light traced upon our shadows)
So you take back the suicide pact and ink it on your skin
(You will guide the long ships away from all the shallows)
You never really knew how much you meant
(You will be the lost light traced upon our shadows)

And you heard me say
(You will guide the long ships away from all the shallows)
That you never really learned what you left that day
(You will be the lost light traced upon our shadows)
Holding back on panic attacks, and leaving out your name
(You will guide the long ships away from all the shallows)
Ensuring all obituaries blank
(You will be the lost light traced upon our shadows)