I wish I could suspend this single moment
And let it span a lifetime in a minute  
Here, where the light glows softly
And tints the walls and my skin gold
While it shines through my nails
Painting everything over in a peaceful trance
This is the place of slumbering souls
And my breath is the ticking of a worldly clock
The only one I can ever trust
Here, I am quiet, and here, I can breathe

I wish I could play this song again
Over and over a hundred thousand times
Because for once it's not a lie
Or a fabrication inside of my hopeful mind
Stitched from a thread of disbelief
For once, it's real and it's here
And I can breathe inside this vision
Even though those breaths are stolen
And my lungs are guilty
I can breathe here, even if only for a moment

I wish the quiet could last forever
The shifting silence punctured by chords
And shifting of fingertips on bedsheets
I am alone here but I am free
Finally I can touch these walls
Finally I can trace the photos of another life
With gentle hands that wish to smash
To break, to destroy, to rip and tear
But they never do, never in this moment
In this moment they still

I wish that I didn't have to sleep
For when I wake it will not be like this
When my eyes open I will have been thrown again
Back into the clockwork cogs of the real world
Pushed into place in a steel roundabout
Eternally spinning and throwing and chewing
Past everything in its path
But here, my fingers twirl through the air
Tracing patterns of dreams and stars and collisions
Between planets and worlds and lips

I wish that I didn't have to wake up
Because if this is so beautiful here
In the space where I can breathe
Then it will be twice as lovely
In the place of translucent dreams
Where it can suspend across a lifetime
Where I can play the song again
Where the quiet will last forever
Where I will not have to sleep
Because I will be dancing beyond this place