Keep Clear
Intro
Verse 1
There's a box on the road where the traffic leaves room,
two words painted white on the black.
Both lanes had stopped, so I crossed through the gap,
and the world came around from the back.
Then I was the sky and the glass and the ground,
and a voice standing over me said
"look what you did," and I've carried it since
like a stone that she set in my head.
Chorus
Keep clear, keep clear.
It's the one thing I still see.
Every second of the day it happened
is the clearest I'll ever be.
And everything after's a window that fogged,
a road with the lines worn away.
I can tell you each moment of losing it all,
and hardly a thing since that day.
Verse 2
I was back in my seat before lunch,
and the hallways already had me dead.
Nobody asked what was missing,
so I didn't ask either. Instead
I'd reach for a thought that was always right there,
like a hand reaching out for a stair
in the dark of a house that I grew up inside,
and find that the step isn't there.
Chorus
Keep clear, keep clear.
It's the one thing I still see.
Every second of the day it happened
is the clearest I'll ever be.
And everything after's a window that fogged,
a road with the lines worn away.
I can tell you each moment of losing it all,
and hardly a thing since that day.
Bridge
They still call me smart, and I let them.
It's easier than explaining
that I'm the last one who remembers her,
the girl who could hold the whole machine in her head,
and I've been living off her name.
Final Chorus
Keep clear, keep clear.
Everyone stopped but one.
I went through the space they had left me
like anybody would've done.
I've spent my whole life crossing where it was clear,
and it keeps coming round anyway.
I can tell you each moment of losing it all,
and hardly a thing since that day.
Outro
Keep clear.
It was.