In one moment, it all can break You pinch yourself, but you're already awake With no warning, the sky can crack And take something, you never can get back It leaves a hole that can't be filled But time will let your heart rebuild The atom bomb, is now just glowing embers With every dawn, I'm feeling stronger still But despite the slow decay, it never goes away The slow, hypnotic, asymptotic slide Toward letting go The time passes, in measured steps Most days are better than the rest Till one day, it's a fading scar So small, but a part of who you are And though that scar will never heal The mind distorts and time conceals The atom bomb, is now just glowing embers With every dawn, I'm feeling stronger still But despite the slow decay, it never goes away The slow, hypnotic, asymptotic slide Toward letting go The half-life is a dull knife With a blade of rusty steel The memory that's part of me It never really heals Every day it's dimming As the cloud around is thinning But the pain, it still is stinging When I sleep The atom bomb, is now just glowing embers With every dawn, I'm feeling stronger still But despite the slow decay, it never goes away The slow, hypnotic, asymptotic slide Toward letting go The once torrential, exponential glide Toward letting go