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We get in our own way, tripping on our feet

Filling up our heads too much with words too hard to speak

Drowning in a place, where the night can not escape

Commit ourselves into the depths, exposed against a page

Caught in a phrase, an echo in our minds

A flash, a flood, and it's burned into our eyes

I can't explain enough, and I won't let it last the night

I'll show you that the image is still there unseen

It's darkest before the light, if we shut our eyes to see

The things that we have lost inside the lines between

Between the black and white, where everything goes grey

And everything's unsaid, undone, and the negative bleeds away

To reveal the memory that we've waited for so long for

The image shifts and the acid drips down the paper to the floor

Caught in a phrase, an echo in our minds

A flash, a flood, and it's burned into our eyes

I can't explain enough, and I won't let it last the night

I'll show you that the image is still there unseen

It's darkest before the light, if we shut our eyes to see

The things that we have lost inside the lines between

We're so nervous to see if we we've let too much in

If we were out of focus or out of frame

I know it's a moment of truth, if a recollection captured reality

Or if it's lost forever

I can't explain enough, and I won't let it last the night

I'll show you that the image is still there unseen

It's darkest before the light, if we shut our eyes to see

The things that we have lost inside the lines between

I can't explain enough, and I won't let it last

The image is still there, unseen