I bury you in mountains I know I must climb
Still dreams of you left in the pits of my mind
Through the brambles and thorns of mania charge
I knew that this path was writ on my cards

You sent me out here, you sent me alone
Marching through night to build my new home
Wind pulls at my cloak and tugs me to east
Back there where I know my pain is a feast

I set my feet firm and dig them in sand
I know heading forward this West is my land
When they see me passing they’ll stutter and stare
“There goes a man whose mind I’d not dare”

All pretenses gone now I have arrived
In murky black pools my heart like a weight dives
In the inkiest drop off I see your face
Your hand is outstretched your eyes are like lace

The ice creeps up as I stare at your visage
So sweet and tender conflicts with my image
This pale face, this thing is a liar
From trying to hold you I must retire

Searching for you I sank to the bottom
Now I can see that I’ve been forgotten
What started out soft and could have been loving
Through recklessness, carelessness has turned into nothing

A nothing that swallows and fills me up
I choke out goodbye, I choke out good luck
I am dragged away up out of the pool
In black reflection I see only a fool

I leave him there in the water with you
I know heading West will pull me through
Through madness and madness and madness again
I know that this West is forever my pen

I’ll be the scribble, the wondering man
With heaving chest and shaking hands
In your room, in your bed I let that piece of me die
I’m heading through West where I leave you behind