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The Broken Side Of Time

by Matthew Ryan

on In the Dusk of Everything (2012)

I'm on the broken
Side of time
Fifteen years out of my skin
Out of my mind

And there's no explaining
Why I went where I've been
Except that some of us are little more
Than burnt fuel on the wind

My first kiss was stolen
My first love was drunk
I'm on my back, on the ceiling
Where the first pain was sunk

And when I say that
I don't mean that I was lifted or free
I was more like a dead dolphin
At the bottom of the sea

I'm on the broken
Side of time
Out of my skin
Out of my mind

I sing hallelujah
From the darkest of rooms
Until the cold light of nothing
Shivers and blooms

Now I don't long for forgiveness
For you to even understand
In this there's no difference
Between a fist and a hand

It had nothing to do with you
And the truth is that it never did
I've been inches from the surface
Since I was kid

But I'm holding my breath
And I'm quiet and loud
Been on the broken side of time
Afraid until now
Afraid until now