Lyrics A Mirror - Wreck and Reference

A Mirror

If sleeping is the only love then this hunger is the only engine
Bitter burning desperation, a gnawing simple fate
Catalyst collision and a counting of catastrophes
Stopping, going, running out of gas and spending too much money
These pale memories stacking up
The dull pain of age
Bruised fruit, peeling skin
Bruised ribs, tired lungs
I could tell by the way you slammed the car door that you weren’t coming back
but you weren’t going home
We were driving once, now we’re just grinding against the gravel Slow moving
traffic going nowhere but you can’t get out
Bubbles burst and salt in your eyes
It’s just like a bad dream, it’s just like a curse
The great sucking down, the great humiliation
At least we got some sleep
Disturbed wretched half sleep
The sleep of dolphins
Dreams of fishnets, dreams of sirens
Dreams of tissue, dreams of childhood
Dreams of drowning in the maelstrom, dreams of drowning in the Clyde
We were swimming once, now we’re just caught in the current Spinning in the
eddy, barely floating on the surface
And you come to alone again
In a cavernous room teeming with strangers
They’re laughing
Not at you but not with you either, so you laugh as you stumble to another drink
Everyone here is having such a hard time
I hope they get some help, I hope they find an answer somewhere I hope their
hunger sends them spinning safely home into their beds
And not to another basement or other symbol of their emptiness
We were dancing once, now we’re just sitting in the corner
Bodies pressed together, a tired imitation of another song
We were running once, now we’re crawling through these ashtrays
We were standing once but now we’re just sleeping in the sewer