Ricochet

Yesterday my troubles seemed so far away

And now there's nothing left to do but watch the choices slip away

And all the voices ricochet – our conversation disappears

In recrimination – voices ricochet – they're just

Words in the distance like birds inside my head and

The water runs red – you're a

Stone on the windscreen you shatter the world ahead

Voices ricochet – you can picture a big 'thirteen' try to extinguish me

Relinquish me from the damage

It's only mortality

It's the echoes of carnage

Now the view is all tarnished – the rest is just wreckage

The sky's a varnish furnished with thoughts of flight

And the pain still visible in light and sound and sight

Dismiss the sky – voices ricochet

Grip is precarious

There's various ways the path of truth can bury us

Too many variables too much chit-chat

Too much of this and that

Too much zig-zag yin yang yak yak

I'm all right Jack pull up the plank I'm aboard

Fall on your sword – a humming repetitive

Feels like a sedative nerves are the last to decay

Don't worry it'll fade away

Voices ricochet – our conversation disappears

In recrimination – voices ricochet – they're just

Words in the distance like birds inside my head

And all the manacles that bind the pinnacles you climb

To the background of a cynical 'who' and 'what' and 'why'

And 'why not' 'Scuse me while I dismiss the sky

Voices ricochet – dismiss the sky