Something Here

There's a sense that comes upon me

When the night becomes subversive and unknown

One foot forward on the cobblestones

With just enough illumination to get home

I'm looking in the dark for something here

Have I been talking for a minute now

Or has it only somehow been another hour?

I feel you staring through the heart of me

And is there something I can do to share that power?

There's a question I can't answer hiding here

It's still unclear but I know there's something here

I'm surrounded by false faces here

And I wonder how they got their costumes right

Watch the ripples on the surface, dear

See the shadows lurking just beyond our sight

There's something unidentified in here

I've been listening for an answer

But you know the stones don't speak above a whisper

They're entrusted with my secrets

And they'll take them to the bottom of the river

There's something that I'll leave behind me here

It's hard to hear, but I know there's something here

There's a memory that my blood keeps

It awakens when the snakes crawl through the gravel

I feel the ghosts of Eden haunting me

And my fragile faith is starting to unravel

There's something that I've learned to fear out here

A stag is watching from the hilltop

Breathing steam to join the fog that circles around him

Will he last another century?

Does he find our frantic pace of life confounding?

There's something best left undisturbed out here

I don't know its name, but I know there's something here

The smoke is curling round a steady hand

And the voices murmur in discordant chorus

Turn your back and face away from me

And watch the fearsome gates swing open wide before us

There's something growing slowly on me here

There's something I've been searching for in here

If you enter in, you'll find there's something here