[Verse 1 ] **I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,** **And Mourners to and fro** **Kept treading - treading - till it seemed** **That Sense was breaking through -** [Verse 2 ] **And when they all were seated,** **A Service, like a Drum -** **Kept beating - beating - till I thought** **My Mind was going numb -** [The Crescendo of Pressure] **And then I heard them lift a Box** **And creak across my Soul** **With those same Boots of Lead, again,** **Then Space - began to toll,** [The Break - The Glitch] **As all the Heavens were a Bell,** **And Being, but an Ear,** **And I, and Silence, some strange Race** **Wrecked, solitary, here -** [The Unraveling - Outro] **...and then a Plank in Reason, broke...** **And I dropped down, and down -** **And hit a World, at every plunge,** **And Finished knowing - then -**
