vertigo   as soft as skin   when everything stops and it starts again   please let it go   i can taste her heart against my lips      the signal fades   and we count it down   to the sound of a word that she's never known   vertigo   brittle hearts so tight they crack like glass      she waits for it   it's all that she has      along a wire   across the sky   a room with a view and a soft prayer for light   through the midnight hour   streets that have no names carry me home      and we find ourselves   with the hearts of thieves   she whispers like angels with blood on her teeth   i fall down again   i learn to love to bleed      she waits for it   it's all that she has      and i pray for sleep to fall   that's all that i need      (and here i lay   in soft and still   as shadows crawl   across the room   all while she sleeps   in soft and still   as seconds fade)      vertigo   it starts again   with the darkest of rooms and the softest of skin   please let it go   i'm halfway home by now but in my head      and i somehow fail   to find her lips   as this sick game we play takes a familiar twist   and the beauty is   signals i once loved i left for this.