A hole in the vision, hidden from sight The brain paints the darkness, swallows the light Everything solid, everything known Edited and woven before it is shown Five pieces severed, five cracks in the stone The world you remember was never alone Let them back in, let the edges decay The world you remember won't look the same way [Pre-Chorus ] Jill in the shower, the boundary dissolves Skin into tile, the self unresolves A scientist watching her own mind unwind The same crack is open in yours and in mine [Chorus ] We are the watching, we are the watched The flame and the shadow, the keyed and the locked Reality bends where the fissures run deep Wake up, wake up, you're still asleep [Drop ] [Verse 2 ] Blind spot, blind spot, the nerve leaves the eye The retina gapes where the light passes by Brain fills the nothing with wallpaper white Completes the deception, completes the sight Fragments of color, of edge and of line Stitched into seamless by design You do not see it, you do not know The hole is still there where the flowers grow [Pre-Chorus] Matter is empty, the atom a ghost A stadium hollow, a shell at the most Electrons like whispers in outermost seats Your hand on the table, the nothingness meets [Chorus ] We are the watching, we are the watched The flame and the shadow, the keyed and the locked Reality bends where the fissures run deep Wake up, wake up, you're still asleep [Bridge ] The sunlight that warms you is eight minutes old The starlight you wish on is ancient and cold The now that you feel is a gathering of thens The past never leaves us, it only pretends A photograph freezes what lives and what moves A word is a coffin for all that it proves Tree is a snapshot of drinking and breath Friend is a ghost of a life and a death [Build ] The self is a flame, not a stone, not a name Cells die and replace, yet the pattern's the same You are the question the universe asks A moment of wonder behind borrowed masks [Drop ] I am the hole! I am the crack! The forward, the backward, the giving, the take back! [Final Chorus ] We are the watching, we are the watched The born and the dying, the opened and locked The cracks were never where the world broke through They were where the world remembered you [Outro ] You are the watching You are the watching You are— [Silence, then a single distant bell] [End]
