Are you drawn to where the waters deepest The veins of where my thoughts ran cold The frozen curtain that should have marked the end Was alive beneath the surface But that wasn't what you wanted afterall Afterall, oh afterall these years So I forgive you for your brevity of words And the ice that encases As long as you will always know the truth I've told you many times before That I can't speak what I'm feeling So words will only brush the surface They are only a distraction From the knots that twist and coil In my heart and in my lungs Tying off my useless voice And I never learned to come clean If the slightest truth destroys me Once again, yes once again I should have held my tongue Once again I will close up And retreat into the silence Where the waters warm and shallow Where the sun shines off the surface A mirage of my contentment So just forget that for a moment You caught a glimpse of who I was