Hearts in Atlantis

On days like today

We learn to smile between the hours of disarray

It’s only in the moment we know how to feel

And it’s all we can do not to break

When the sun refuses to rise

And we fight so hard to numb the pain

The silence tells what our mouths couldn’t say

That our body is only just a shell

A dying allusion to a former self

So it seems like we should mourn

And that our hearts must truly ache

But they’ve all but died and paled away

So it’s nights like tonight

When the chest falls as the sun goes down

And fails to rise with the moon

And we feel like it would have been better to never see the stars

Because they make us feel so damn small

That our voice lands just outside of hearing

Like we couldn’t stop the world from turning

And there’s nothing left to break our fall

It’s a sinking feeling like a broken soul

Biding its time all the way down

Underneath the darkest night

A drowning vessel never to be saved

Remember when we used to sit

 Underneath the daytime sky

Telling stories of simpler times

To the clouds passing by

Or how we used to dream of New York City nights

And Atlantis just within our sights

Or friend, have you just forgotten

That we said it would never end

‘Cause I think you did, Yeah I think it did.