The Black Dog

There is no high
Without a low
And I know this time
It's gonna hurt

Yeah it's easy
To kill a stranger
When you don't even
Know yourself

On the breakwater
We watched the waves rise
You couldn't speak
The spark had left your eyes

In my nightmares
You were standing there
On the spit into the waves
Til the water became your grave

And I was hoping
That you would write to me
Cast a letter in a bottle
That the waves would bear your promise

I was weak then
I was worthless
I'd kill myself for your forgiveness
This whole world just ain't for living

I'm still blaming
Everyone but me
I hate everything I've done
But from the water I cannot run

Yeah it's easy
To kill a stranger
If you don't even
Know yourself

There is no high
Without a low
And I know this time
It's gonna hurt coming down

On the shoreline
We watched the waves roll in
You said you didn't know the reason
For all the pain that you'd been feeling

Waves around our feet
You turned to look at me
"You're not a cancer or a curse," she said
"But it's only getting worse"

The black dog, yeah it waits for me
Around the corner, down the hall
Where I cannot see you at all
But you're still in there
I know I must be going soon
Don't have a place here anymore
Packed the bags and cleaned the floors

Now I'm holding, I'm holding on
There's still something at our center
I just wish that you'd remember

But it's waiting
Yeah it waits for me
At the point of no return
You've already watched it burn