I breathe you in and let your smoke fill every crevice of my lungs

Poisoning  me, yet i can't help but take another breath

A  formless beauty standing just beyond my arms reach

Burning so bright i can't tell if what i see is real

I live in the shelter of your smoke

Of  your smoke

But  your safety is killing me

The flames grow higher

The  flames grow higher while my embers fade

My embers fade to ash

I've lived by the fire

We live in houses held up by fragile walls

Stained  yellow from your smoke, burnt hollow by your flames

A blackened cloud passing through my fingertips

My eyes swelter as i stumble through your mist

Stumble through your mist

I live in the shelter of your smoke

Of your smoke

But your safety is killing me

The flames grow higher

The flames grow higher while my embers fade

My embers fade to ash

I've lived by the fire

Calloused lungs

Blistered hands

From the shell of a man

To the flaws brought forth

The closer to home

The harder it falls

All those who once stood by my side

Have now all been led astray

...and this is why

We are alone

...and this is why

We are alone

...and this is why

We are alone

...and this is why

We are alone

I just don't know how to live

While this weight bears down on my back

Alone and breathless

Smoke stained walls

Burnt hollow by the flames

Although I've tried

And fought tooth and nail

Exhaling through calloused lungs

It's all been in vain

I can't hold back

The fires, the smoke

Beneath this October sun