You start in a city far beyond the reach of memory
Where I was the word breaking out of the parentheses
You summoned a spark before the cigarette was in my mouth
This inconsolable wind just enough to make it flicker out

So let it all come down
Explode without a sound

I staggered around like a wasp behind a window pane
Flanked by the ghosts of Jesus Christ and Emperor Charlemagne
You showed me the bones at the bottom of the well again
And then you cut to my smile as I toss another body in

So let it all come down
Explode without a sound
And the silence seems much louder than it ever did
When all we have to measure it is time

We tear the pages out
But we write them faster, we write them faster
We tear the pages out
But we write them faster, we write them faster
We try to look away
But we're dazzled by this crippled symmetry
We tear the pages out
But we write them faster, we write them faster

So let it all come down
Explode without a sound

We tear the pages out
But we write them faster, write them faster
We tear the pages out
But we write them faster, write them faster
And the silence seems much louder than it ever did
When all we have to measure it is time.