Narrow the lens. Focus the light down to a single point of failure We look back through a tiny window of time Magnifying the mistakes Crystallizing the guilt The aperture closes, sealing the past in amber A museum of what could have been I keep looking back through that same damn window Staring at the exact moment where it all went wrong Wishing I could reach through the glass and stop myself Before I threw away everything we had built But the lens is cold and the image won't change I’m just a ghost haunting my own mistakes And the dark is closing in on me Stuck inside a room of memories Looking backward... blinding the eye... step away from the lens... I am drowning in the things I can’t change leave the dead to bury the dead Regret is a poison that mimics a remedy A nostalgic theater of self-flagellation You paralyze the present by worshiping the past Open the shutter Let the exposure burn the negative away It’s easy for you to say to let it burn You didn't lose everything that you loved I am trapped in the flash of the final mistake I can't just turn the page when I'm covered in ash When I’m covered in ash It’s burning my eyes! It’s all I can see Shut the lens. Turn away I CAN'T FORGIVE MYSELF THEN LET THE DARKNESS SLEEP
