Every dream goes racing the night
Falling asleep or just falling alike
A fiercely pounding heart gives rhythm to dreams
Is it your heart here or mine drowning in fear?
I can't hear over the symphony of screams

I never thought it possible to die twice in one life
But it will be proved if I don't last this night
Can I keep my dreams anchored in one heart
Or will this harness only tear me apart?

She never noticed how blue your eyes were
We both wonder just how happy you are with her
Your fiercely pounding heart gives rhythm tonight
Or is it just my footsteps as I back away from your intents?
I step from the moon into the streetlight

Regression was always a fault of mine
But you knew that, and you're counting on it this time
My fiercely pounding heart gives rhythm to me
As I run from one I love and to the arms of one I've shunned
But whatever will be will be

So let me die again... what does it matter?

-October 6th, 1999-