Five Months

The night creeps through my bones with a winter's chill

Sending shivers down my spine

Like cold hands across my skin

Five months have passed

And taken with them every sense of warmth

Until my blood ran cold and life stood still

And still I hold my breath

Counting the nights

I've stood with my heart in hand

And still I hold my breath

Counting the nights

Waiting for silence to break

To break me down again

If only you could see

See it in my eyes how much it means

Your touch, your smile

To a heart that's beat has long since given out

And given in

The night opens wide

Swallowing every sense

Embracing me with emptiness

The night opens wide (opens wide)

Swallowing every sense

Embracing me with emptiness

The hours have become irritations

And I find myself reduced to life's imitation

The hours have become irritations

And I find myself reduced to life's imitation

How can we truly say that we are alive

When everything I see in me is screaming?

How can we truly say that we are alive

When everything I see in me is screaming otherwise?

It's screaming otherwise

'Cause five months have passed

And taken with them every sense of warmth

Until my blood ran cold and life stood still

And life stood still

And life stood still

The hours have become irritations

And I find myself reduced to life's imitation

The hours have become irritations

And I find myself reduced to life's imitation