Echoes of Myself

Verse I I open my eyes inside my eyes Faces drift through me like passing lights My hands are late, my thoughts arrive Before my mouth remembers why Colors breathe, the floor turns thin I fall through laughter, bone, and wind Every step invents a place Every place invents my face Pre-Chorus My name unthreads From what I am A sound without a mouth Still calling back Chorus Echoes of myself In a thousand broken tones I am everywhere I fell I am never on my own Echoes of myself In the blood behind my eyes Every thought a different hell Every breath a small goodbye Verse II I watch my childhood walk away Wearing masks of yesterday My future kneels inside a ring And asks me what I’m worshipping Planets bloom inside my chest (I breathe out rooms, I breathe in steps) My spine becomes a burning stair Someone else is standing there Pre-Chorus He moves like me But feels like truth He knows the things I never knew Chorus Echoes of myself On the ceiling of my skull I am heaven, I am else I am fullness, I am null Echoes of myself In the choir of my fear Every “I” is someone else Every “now” is never here Bridge Spin me into simpler shapes Let me be a sound, a taste Let me be the space between The wound and what it means I dissolve in mirrored skin I forget where I begin I forget what I’ve become I remember: I am none Final Chorus Echoes of myself Not behind me, not ahead I am the question I once held I am the answer being said Echoes of myself In a silence full of sound I am lost and I am felt I am nowhere. I am now. Outro Something breathes where I was Something sees without a form If I wake, I won’t be sure Who is being born.