Tell Me Once More

You walked out on the beach, you opened up the empty reach
Where I was much too scared to go, then you turned and said “I told you so”
Under an open sky you told me I was far too shy
And if you don’t get what you want, you always seem to get what you need

But you know I don’t get anything until the shot hits me and rings
My ears are much too sensitive—they cannot hear the obvious
And not until the language burns, lives around the axis turn
The fearful vertigo of night when dizzy stars sing boastfully now

Of their distance from the small, small speck of this small system
Tell me once more that I am not alone

So lost in insignificance I wonder at the empty chance
That offered me a finer love, then took it with another hand
And now I hear you’re wandering and finding it in many things
But you can’t even steel yourself to drive the 20 miles to my town
And see me smile, because it’s far, far beyond me where you’re going
And I don’t want to fall down with you this time

You got lost on those beaches, swallowed (up) by the empty reaches
I was much too scared to follow, wondering how much this hollow man
Can take a step away from this, sometimes I feel a sense of peace
But that’s just something for the record, because it never stays to tea

And you’ve lost from the inside what I lost from the outside
Tell me once more that I am not alone

You know I don’t get… anything until the shot hits me and rings
My ears are much too sensitive—they never hear the obvious
And not until your language burned, and lives around the axis turned
The fearful vertigo of night when dizzy stars sing boastfully now

Of their distance from the small, small speck of this small system
Tell me once more that I am not alone

Tell me once more, tell me once more
that I am not alone
Tell me once more, tell me once more…
That I am not alone
Tell me once more, tell me once more…