[Verse 1] Blink awake on a silent floor Like I forgot what I came here for The room is full of almost people Frozen in their little sequel [Pre-Chorus] Every face is smooth and still Every hand knows where to go Everybody knows the way How come I'm the one who doesn't know? [Chorus] Almost people, passing by Keeping time without a sound Everybody knows their lines Nobody is asking why I can see the little seams Running underneath the day Everybody knows their part I forgot the one I came to play [Verse 2] Same four footsteps down the hall Same hand resting on the wall Someone smiles without a face Then returns to the same place Every clock repeats the hour Every door knows where it leads Everybody has a purpose Or at least that's how it seems [Pre-Chorus] There's a door that's half-way open There's a light I almost know Something in me says I've seen it Somewhere I was long ago [Chorus] Almost people, passing by Keeping time without a sound Everybody knows their lines Nobody is asking why I can see the little seams Running underneath the day Everybody knows their part I forgot the one I came to play [Instrumental Break - Violin Solo I, Delicate and Searching] [Verse 3] I tried asking one a question That was never theirs to hear For a moment something faltered Then the answer reappeared Same inflection, same expression Like the question never came So I smiled and let them finish And they carried on the same [Verse 4] There are windows painted open There are roads that turn around Every path becomes familiar Every edge leads back to town Sometimes something past the distance Feels more solid than what's near Like the world beyond the picture Is the reason I am here [Pre-Chorus] There's a door that's half-way open There's a light I almost know Something in me says don't name it Just remember where to go [Chorus] Almost people, passing by Keeping time without a sound Everybody knows their lines Nobody is asking why I can see the little seams Running underneath the day Everybody knows their part I forgot the one I came to play [Instrumental Break - Violin Solo II, Longer and Increasingly Unsettled] [Verse 5] Maybe they are not the sleeping Maybe I'm the one who dreams Maybe every face around me Sees a different set of seams I have watched them from a distance Like I know what makes them move But if someone stood outside me Would I look awakened too? [Verse 6] Still I carry something wordless Like a splinter from before Not a picture, not a memory Just a pull toward something more If this place is all there ever was Why should somewhere call to me? Why should anything inside me Ache for what I've never seen? [Instrumental Break - Violin Solo III, Expansive and Yearning] [Verse 7] Sometimes beauty feels remembered More than anything I know Like these shapes are only copies Of a place they cannot show Maybe something fell inside us When we first forgot the way And the part that doesn't belong here Is the part that chose to stay [Verse 8] Whoever fashioned all these hallways Made them almost like a home Gave us everything to look at But nowhere we could really go Still a little piece refuses To believe the walls are whole Like a stranger left a window Somewhere underneath my soul [Instrumental Break - Violin Solo IV, Distant and Otherworldly] [Bridge] Was there something I was given? Was there somewhere I should be? There's a word behind the silence Almost coming back to me If I knew it once, I'll know it If I came here, there's a way Maybe waking isn't knowing Maybe waking is the ache [Quiet Refrain] Almost people, passing by Maybe they could say the same Maybe somewhere in their silence They've forgotten why they came [Instrumental Break - Sparse Violin and Guitar] [Final Chorus] Almost people, passing by Keeping time without a sound Everybody knows their lines Nobody is asking why I can see the little seams Running underneath the day Everybody knows their part I'll remember mine someday [Extended Violin Solo - Main Instrumental Climax] [Outro] There's a door that's half-way open There's a light I almost know I don't need to understand it I just need to know it shows Almost people, passing by Slowly fading from my view If there's something past the doorway Maybe I've been there too [Long Instrumental Outro - Violin]
