Now, it’s about 3 in the morning, and I’m still not in bed

It’s raining outside, and there’s something unsaid

You live in my slumbers, but I know that you’re gone

I think it’s friggin awesome that I’m moving along

I swear, I couldn’t bear to stare into the dead of the night

So taken with the sight I would tremble inside

The hum of the big city, the distant traffic, the lights

Anxious and swollen with loneliness, I’d get colder than ice

It blazed on the tip of every lit cigarette

And it ate me with all the buriеd silent hurt of neglect

It was bеnding and breaking me, but I couldn’t explain

Why the hell was all this happening, again and again

And when the storm behind the window made me wanna cry out my eyes

When you were with me yet so far away, I felt paralyzed

And that’s when I felt so weak and unable to ask why would you never care

‘Cause I already knew the answer, and didn’t want to hear it and despair

Here it comes, it comes, it comes to take me

It comes to drag me away, away, away

Here it comes, it comes, it comes to take me

The ghastly shadows fall and rise

They spin their solemn dance, they hypnotize

The raindrops are tapping and hitting home again

An old familiar rhythm on the window pane

Where am I gonna go?

Where am I gonna get?

What will I have to get through

And where will I eventually end up?

The storm beyond the grief drowns the confusion and clears the way

I know I gotta ride this out to move on, but not to stay

It comes from somewhere

And I know from where

It’s trying to pull me under

To steal me, to kill me

So tired and jaded, I’m tattered and torn

But stronger than I thought and newly reborn

The touchy-feely thing grows thinner with every breath that I take

For god’s sake! Is it true? Am I even awake?

Gimme the truth, I wanna get stronger without getting killed

At what price? Nowhere to run, so I gotta stand still

I think I’m awakened but less connected than ever

Patrolling the glass wall of isolation just gets better and better

And I know there’s nothing to push it away

It keeps on floating around, each night and every day

The incompassionately quiet, the indiscriminately sad

It’s like the light’s going out on something vital inside

I know where it comes from

And what’s it all for

It’s right in my core

I’ve absorbed it and I know I can’t be scared anymore

It’s now that I welcome aloneness like an old friend that I used to know

Now that I feel so free, I can move on to where I have to go

Here it comes, it comes, it comes to take me

It comes to drag me away, away, away

Here it comes, it comes, it comes to take me

It comes from somewhere

And I know from where

It’s trying to pull me under

To steal me, to kill me

You’ll ride shotgun, my friend

Right to the very end

Transmogrified to transcend

You’re now, my bitch, my shadow

It comes from somewhere

And I know from where

It’s trying to pull me under

To steal me, to kill me

It comes from somewhere

‘Cause I have been there

But now you call shotgun

So thrill me, complete me

You’re not a threat anymore

Transmogrified to transcend

I’ve absorbed you this time, and it’s setting me free

Like never ever before

I can move on, we’re bound together till the very end

You’re gonna be riding shotgun with me

You’re not a threat anymore

Transmogrified to transcend

I’ve absorbed you this time, and it’s setting me free

Like never ever before

I can move on, we’re bound together till the very end

You’re gonna be riding shotgun with me