The Fall (Song of Gravity)

Her drowning screams were drifting away

Ignoring them I walked on

Her distant shouts like torn soaked fabric

Attempting to dress the undressed night

I kept on walking ruined in the rain

Her screams awaited me at the next corner

And the next

An endless scream of eternity

Always leading me back to the same bridge

Where the young woman and I

Were forever connected by currents

Her bright watery world joining my unlighted life

She was far downstream by now sunk to the bottom perhaps

But never far below the surface of my consciousness

Though we never met she was closer than a sister

Closer than a wife

We were linked, doomed together

- to be separate and alone

The moment I was lost was the moment I found her

We became bound forever since the living become custodians of the souls of the dead

Ah, me, precious me

All I had was lost in a single flash

I heard the laughter

Soft at first, then crescendo

Laughing at me

Entire choirs of laughter!

I hid myself away cloaked In society's false gowns of ideals and made-up dignity

I became a concentration camp guard who couldn't concentrate

I sought out new positions and applied for a job at the Occupation of Loss

There's no use waiting for The Last Judgment because it happens every day

Look at me now, mon cher!

The judge-penitent

I know you think most prefer to become lost in each other's shadows

To merely watch and wait for their world of one to become a world of none

Please don't leave me, mon ami

Stay a while longer I beg you

Walk me to my home

Besides who can tolerate the glare of eternal darkness?

Can't you hear them laughing?

Orgies of laughter laughing at my bungling attempts

To hide my crimes

They're laughing, laughing at me

Laughter muffled by fog over the bridges

Know that few of us are equal and fewer seek the beating sun

So let us salute those dreamers who dare to fly and fail

Let the meltdown begin!

Look around and listen

The song of gravity makes no sound

The deafening silence slowly surrounds

The fall feels far 'til it comes around

When you turn to look it's a far away down

Isn't it a far, far, far way down

I like you, mon compatriote

You stepped into my office

Where I set up shop at the Mexico City bar

A ridiculous name

You listened like a mirror got me talking about myself

A juvenile priest, listening to a wily confessor

Let us sit beneath the empty frame over the bar

Of the missing and lost "Just Judges"

You are free to take my confession amid the drunks and pimps

And audience of dead candles

Circles, concentric circles surround me, those watery rings of hell!

They lead me to the last circle - the red light ring

Where all windows become spotlights to illuminate my crimes!

If we are all guilty then we are free to confess each other's crimes

Now I seek a fresh start to walk free under the radar

To love crime over love

Crimes with no laws – crimes of the heart!

So look around, mon compatriote

And listen

The song of gravity makes no sound

Deafening silence slowly surrounds

The fall feels far 'til it comes around

When you turn to look it's a far way down

Isn't it a far, far, far way down