Wind-Up and Collapse / Passenger Stare

The wind-up and collapse The fading story of the war you fought Above the beds of kind young lovers your web had caught The glimmering streets they walked Where they buried their pearls of dew To seed the last place you'd ever see them full in bloom And you can still pretend Their love won't be enough for them in the end They'll need you someday, though they disappeared so soon The wind-up and collapse Out through the ceiling to the dark backyards Where you would lay each night, a vandal with glowing eyes And I know I never asked you to remember But I hope you'd think of me To blink and to miss things you people won't believe And it's been so long Since you were pressed up to the wall Waiting just to catch one fleeting laugh And you can still pretend The big joke you pulled was lost on them It was dumb. The moment's passed. They don't know what they missed (The passenger stare as I pressed through You tried to reach out but I left you Oh, the night your anchor rose The passenger stare that you fell through The shivering things I could tell you Oh, the night your anchor rose The passenger stare as I passed through The sleeping sleet tumbling past you Oh, the night your anger rose The futures that you had seen through And starless you saw they'd come true Streetlight snow, at last you just let go)