I heard the notes all fade away    Leaving memorial stones    Yesterday's thoughts have come to stay    Until they decompose    A picture paints a thousand words    With nothing much to say    What last night seemed had to be heard    Is left unsaid today       So when you said you understood    I couldn't understand    I was looking at an empty beach    As you saw all the grains of sand    I was counting views from windows    When you looked in from outside    The light was blurred and distant    And several cities wide       So I turn up the volume    To hear the notes so dim    You said you couldn't hear it    So I asked you to come in    Then you held up a mirror    And I saw my face congeal    I was thin and getting thinner    And I dreamt for real