It was all for nothing
Was it nothing for all
I bled a river
From a heart of stone

Cold understanding
Clothed in barbed wire
No more returning
No more retreat
Your flight is Earthbound
In full defeat

This old Earth, is dying
I feel it in my bones
I see it in the water
It trembles in the stones

You can tell me that you don't believe
You can tell that I'm foolishly deceived
But I can hear her louder every day
I cannot feel it any other way

We have bruised her body
We have bruised her soul
Poison in the waters
And the places of our home

You can tell me that you won't believe
That what I say is just a foolish dream
There will be no time to make amends
By the time you hear her final songs

Mother Earth is dying
I feel it in my bones
I see it in the waters
It trembles in the stones

I can't find the me that is
So I try to remember
The me that was

The me that is
Cannot remember
The me that was

So I cannot be
The me that is

And yet I am
The me that is
And not
The me that was

When you've done it all
Everything you said
When your book is full
Of the things you read

When you've seen it all
And know it's not
The thing you spoke
And said it was

But your heart still aches
And your mind still burns
For loves sweet straits
And twisting turns

When midnight comes
Without a stroke
And the streets are cold
And life's a joke

When the river dries
And the bed is stones
And the rain never comes
Despite the clouds

Remember me
Recall the song
I was here
And you were gone

You may be a Diamond
I am no ring of Gold
And can never hold
In this everlasting cold
And I know that I'll be missing
You're sweet smile
Somewhere way on down the road
When birdsong carries melodies
Upon the gentle breeze
And I'll be singing too
I am forever blue
About you

What's there to say
Everyday the same
With a little difference
That you and I
Cannot see

A tiny flow
A stream that runs below
In the dark cavern

Hidden from the up above
In the bustle and hum of
Now

We don't see the loss
We're just a little lighter every day
And a little more dry

Love flows away

Down the empty street I walk
Searching for signs
Of what once wrote itself
On me, in me
Right here
Right there

This place is a stone
Upon a stone
With eyes that stare me down
And follow me

Will I ever learn
There's no return
Bricks and mortar
Have no memory
And the windows are dark lidless holes
Empty eyes
In the faces of the night