They whispered Sinister Leaves across our street weave into crisp sounds of a whimper Green veins on hidden blades emanate from dim street lights Our wires frayed The night flickers The most dangerous of thoughts are always man made: gunpowder, religious crusades, propaganda, slaves Such power an insidious lingua franca against words we can’t say As they encircle their prey Thermopylae betrayed Frankly I’m naked and afraid on that Perfect Blue stage I lay wrists bound crossed fist down isolated while the tongue of an oppressor takes my - breath away like wheezing voiceless singers Take my breath away like seize their silent prayers Take my breath away like Anxiety and Razors Toxic city vapors These woods: human nature If we didn’t come back would you still remember? If we didn’t come back would you still remember? If we didn’t come back would you still remember? If I didn’t come back would you still… Violent wraiths, psionic mindflayers Stranger things that strangle days when memories fade in the coldest winter “We’ll be gone til November” Private party tonight but nah no members Wax seal on paper in an empty envelope Zoetrope still frames of memories I wrote with invisible burns from light off my middle finger Time freezes for all For us let it linger My hands - the of glory deliverance A blank farewell note Coins cover my eyes I see Charon’s boat standing vigil by the inferno Sargasso Sea breeze That sinister whisper now a canopy of trees Dare I leave Rear window vertigo or Terminal speed in my CLK should be CBT If I survive tonight Remember us Remember Me Please The Forest Calls For Us The Forest lovely dark and deep Where I have promises to keep And miles to go before I sleep Ozymandias ozymandias If we didn’t come back would you still remember? If we didn’t come back would you still remember? If we didn’t come back would you still remember? If I didn’t come back would you still… Click - black woven fabric drapes a body Embalmed in aged leather a black dog disembodies Vengeful engines gnaw in all directions Self Inflicted Natural Selection off the spectrum Cauterized but still infected Caught your lies so stop pretending My intention is to sever our connections Sweet release - emancipation It’s ending Can’t see your rear view reflection Moisture in the air condenses into rain In the mountains of madness all driven insane The state of this atmosphere is pressure and pain No pleasure in brain A blessing or bane Receptors scream from forgotten dreams like the afterimages of oncoming high beams Running from a precog murder scene For us In the forest at the edge of a pastoral ravine