I'll awaken The solitude of this mountain becomes constant The walls embrace me in their calm Gusting winds breathe around me My container a vessel of stillness balanced upon stone and earth With too many stories for a single lifetime If I blink the vessel breaks Shattering the illusion of freedom With the flash of an eye it's gone (It's gone) I open my eyes, to stare into yours My heart marks this time forevermore But now I'm between a flicker of fantasy Struggling now, struggling now to make sense of this Belief without conviction The world in my mind could be real, where thoughts bring solace I listen, I listen Over the dull song of birds Over the sounds in the distance Over the sirens of the lost Silence, is what I wish for I open my eyes, to stare into yours My heart marks this time forevermore But now I'm between a flicker of fantasy Struggling now, struggling now to make sense of this I've been altered by staring into infinity I open my eyes, to stare into yours My heart marks this time forevermore With this I'll be remembered, so I can die and truly be born I smile at the thought of myself smiling again Living a lifetime between breaths