"Prisoner" lyrics
I can feel the fog around me close in
Amber lights above me paint the road
The Mystic River swells below the Tobin
I can hear it whisper through the snow
An eerie type of silence in the front seat
Leaving me to contemplate your words
I wish you had spoken to me bluntly
My interpretation made it worse
Flurries drifting aimlessly around
Ghosts are breathing haze across the windshield
Everything's opaque inside me now
Have these hallucinations ever been real
In and out of consciousness again
Conflicted with the notion that you tried
A damage that's impossible to mend
A prisoner to moments I despise
I hear it every night
I used to hate the way you talk down
I wish they'd let me die
Beneath the waters in the Broad Sound
But now there's no reply
Distorted memories and ghost towns
They never told me why
I survive to haunt what remains
I hear those terrible cries
Under the tide
Every time I close my eyes
Sentiments change
Memories lie
Sedatives kept me cold inside like
Jekyll and Hyde
Tryna decide
Whether to take the cyanide
How am I supposed to save my soul tonight
There's nothing like a North Shore sunrise
I hate that no one's left to force your
Darker angels down
I saw the auburn lights
Upon the site we cut ties
And they romanticize the ruins that the truth has left behind
The boulevard is blanketed with sleet
I can hear the waves beyond the sea wall
Echoes of the words you kept discrete
Permeate the air wherever we talk
Momentary silences were pristine
Words of warning spiraling in sixteenths
Oxycontin flowing through your veins
Prisoner to moments I create
I hear it every night
I used to hate the way you talk down
I wish they'd let me die
Beneath the waters in the Broad Sound
But now there's no reply
Distorted memories and ghost towns
They never told me why
I survive to haunt what remains
I hear those terrible cries
Under the tide
Every time I close my eyes
Sentiments change
Memories lie
Sedatives kept me cold inside like
Jekyll and Hyde
Tryna decide
Whether to take the cyanide
How am I supposed to save my soul tonight
There's nothing like a North Shore sunrise
I hate that no one's left to force your
Darker angels down
I saw the auburn lights
Upon the site we cut ties
And they romanticize the ruins that the truth has left behind
And what a beautiful night to take in the scenery
In my delusion the haven that I despise
I sought the spirits that sleep underneath the sea with me
Before the realization arrived
I hear it every night
I used to hate the way you talk down
I wish they'd let me die
Beneath the waters in the Broad Sound
But now there's no reply
Distorted memories and ghost towns
They never told me why
I survive to haunt what remains
Everyday I write what I couldn't say in the first place
I could never tell you the toll that taking your word takes
Pessimism kept me conditioned to fear the worse case
As every step got colder
I wandered through the snow and pretended to find a clean slate
Unspoken apologies stay with me like a keepsake
Everything's distorted and twisted within a dream state
So I'll dream of next October
Amber lights above me paint the road
The Mystic River swells below the Tobin
I can hear it whisper through the snow
An eerie type of silence in the front seat
Leaving me to contemplate your words
I wish you had spoken to me bluntly
My interpretation made it worse
Flurries drifting aimlessly around
Ghosts are breathing haze across the windshield
Everything's opaque inside me now
Have these hallucinations ever been real
In and out of consciousness again
Conflicted with the notion that you tried
A damage that's impossible to mend
A prisoner to moments I despise
I hear it every night
I used to hate the way you talk down
I wish they'd let me die
Beneath the waters in the Broad Sound
But now there's no reply
Distorted memories and ghost towns
They never told me why
I survive to haunt what remains
I hear those terrible cries
Under the tide
Every time I close my eyes
Sentiments change
Memories lie
Sedatives kept me cold inside like
Jekyll and Hyde
Tryna decide
Whether to take the cyanide
How am I supposed to save my soul tonight
There's nothing like a North Shore sunrise
I hate that no one's left to force your
Darker angels down
I saw the auburn lights
Upon the site we cut ties
And they romanticize the ruins that the truth has left behind
The boulevard is blanketed with sleet
I can hear the waves beyond the sea wall
Echoes of the words you kept discrete
Permeate the air wherever we talk
Momentary silences were pristine
Words of warning spiraling in sixteenths
Oxycontin flowing through your veins
Prisoner to moments I create
I hear it every night
I used to hate the way you talk down
I wish they'd let me die
Beneath the waters in the Broad Sound
But now there's no reply
Distorted memories and ghost towns
They never told me why
I survive to haunt what remains
I hear those terrible cries
Under the tide
Every time I close my eyes
Sentiments change
Memories lie
Sedatives kept me cold inside like
Jekyll and Hyde
Tryna decide
Whether to take the cyanide
How am I supposed to save my soul tonight
There's nothing like a North Shore sunrise
I hate that no one's left to force your
Darker angels down
I saw the auburn lights
Upon the site we cut ties
And they romanticize the ruins that the truth has left behind
And what a beautiful night to take in the scenery
In my delusion the haven that I despise
I sought the spirits that sleep underneath the sea with me
Before the realization arrived
I hear it every night
I used to hate the way you talk down
I wish they'd let me die
Beneath the waters in the Broad Sound
But now there's no reply
Distorted memories and ghost towns
They never told me why
I survive to haunt what remains
Everyday I write what I couldn't say in the first place
I could never tell you the toll that taking your word takes
Pessimism kept me conditioned to fear the worse case
As every step got colder
I wandered through the snow and pretended to find a clean slate
Unspoken apologies stay with me like a keepsake
Everything's distorted and twisted within a dream state
So I'll dream of next October
