Understanding Love as Loss

[Verse 1: Garrett Russell]

Searching for solace in a toxic temple

Fragments of lead climbing through your head

Stones load your coat as you wade through the winter current

Dancing with the dead on the riverbed

Wanton hanging of the wise pale king

And I see myself

[Pre-Chorus: Thomas Freckleton]

Here we dream in a bed of seamless sleep

The rain never wakes you from your descent

Sinking through subtle waves that disguise the current down below

You're pulled in the undertow

[Chorus: Garrett Russell]

Intricate: I watched the world dance inside your head

Ephemeral: everything created must expire

Misery: losing hope for a dying world

Or did we lose hope in ourselves, my ineffable?

[Post-Chorus: Thomas Freckleton]

Words lose sound with every fathom, further down

[Verse 2: Garrett Russell]

Torn between two worlds

Floundering in a state of metaxis

One is waning, one is dead

In both, we feel too much, we feel too much

[Chorus: Garrett Russell]

Intricate: I watched the world dance inside your head

Ephemeral: everything created must expire

Misery: losing hope for a dying world

Or did we lose hope in ourselves, my ineffable?

[Outro: Garrett Russell]

Most nights we merge into one dream

You mouth that four word sundering

Soundless, but somehow deafening

"I can't go on"

I'll strain my voice to make you relent

But the tide holds me in my dissent

We're bound to each other in the undertow

You were my ineffable