These useless endeavours that kept you from counting Seconds when minutes would keep you from shouting Out loud it would keep you from shouting out loud Alone it would keep you from counting it down The silence around me is killing me slowly The air filled with tension, it some how can hold me Tightly to the floor, my stomach ties in knots I bite my tongue 'cause I don't know what's Tearing these scars deep beneath my skin Maybe it's this isolation with in Or the thought alone that's filled me with doubt I cannot breathe until I'm without These heavy thoughts, they're too heavy to hold But I'm still trying to find why this Isolation is what I take comfort in I can feel it burning my skin I breathe in, I breathe out My eyes open to a narrow light Tunnelled by my vision, this feeling's not right The taste of copper has stained my tongue A rusted flavour that doesn't belong The fragile ghosts that distort the light Are fading fast and I'm losing sight Of my fragile mind, still clouded by guilt Tears apart your thoughts brick by brick that you have built It's burning from the taste of salt This wound won't heal but I've never felt Like hoping this zinc will keep Me from rusting when it's rusting I need It echoes through the noise These scars are reminders that I cannot hide I keep telling myself that I don't need hope But hoping for something is hopeless itself Hoping for something is hopeless itself It echoes through the noise