Joyful Reunion - Sweet Billy Pilgrim

You start in a city far beyond the reach of memory

Where I was the word breaking out of the parentheses

You summoned a spark before the cigarette was in my mouth

This inconsolable wind just enough to make it flicker out

So let it all come down

Explode without a sound

I staggered around like a wasp behind a window pane

Flanked by the ghosts of Jesus Christ and Emperor Charlemagne

You showed me the bones at the bottom of the well again

And then you cut to my smile as I toss another body in

So let it all come down

Explode without a sound

And the silence seems much louder than it ever did

When all we have to measure it is time

We tear the pages out

But we write them faster, we write them faster

We tear the pages out

But we write them faster, we write them faster

We try to look away

But we’re dazzled by this crippled symmetry

We tear the pages out

But we write them faster, we write them faster

So let it all come down

Explode without a sound

We tear the pages out

But we write them faster, write them faster

We tear the pages out

But we write them faster, write them faster

And the silence seems much louder than it ever did

When all we have to measure it is time