Count to Ten - ThouShaltNot

You’ll hold your breath and count

You’ll stop at ten

And then need to do it over again

But don’t bite your tongue

Come on tell me, tell what I already know

'Cause we’re not strangers

Who’d sell our beloved discomfort for petty gold

And nothing changes in Hell

Its mouth is open, its eyes are closed

Its claws are lashing and its rage exposed

And I wait for you to revive my ghost from where I fell

Where there is sound, there’s life

Sometimes I act like this

To hear your shrieking prove that you exist

If you ran the world

We’d all be strapped in white jackets for feeling at all

But what you’ve got

Is just your black mortar, one way glass, brick and serenity wall

And because I’m not on your side, I’m a trap

My jaws are open, my ears are closed

I’m poised and still, but ready to explode

But it’s not like that I promise there’s no code

And no secrets to unwrap

You can’t hold your breath forever

Beneath the shelter of the sky

'Cause my reflection in your water

Will break the surface tension you’ve been swearing by

This is a different world with every frame of time

And time can see the living stillness you create

When you stop counting and you breathe

Your mouth is open, your eyes are closed

Your hands are trembling and your teardrops flow

And the moment rises to find us both, and it never leaves