Are you drawn to where the water's deepest The veins of where my thoughts ran cold The frozen current that should have marked the end Was alive beneath the surface But that wasn't what you wanted afterall Afterall, oh afterall these years So I forgive you for your brevity of words And the ice that encases as long as you will always know the truth And I've told you many times before That I can't speak what I'm feeling And though some words will crest the surface They are only a distraction From the knots that twist and coil In my heart and in my lungs Tying off my useless voice And I'll never learn to come clean If the slightest truth destroys me Once again, yes once again I should have held my tongue Once again I will close up And retreat into the silence Where the water's warm and shallow Where the sun shines off the surface A mirage of my contentment So just forget that for a moment You caught a glimpse of who I was