Wake up and my heart is sinking, just another day of thinking
All the things I could have done I didn't do for you
All the help I never gave you, all I did that didn't save you
All the little careful words that could have pulled you through

This place is haunted by the silences that grow      
When I'm hiding from your rage and all the things you claim to know
About my coldness and my cruelty and my failures as a friend
I keep my silence, keep my distance, keep my hopes of staying innocent

Oh my dear was I so wrong
  (the shadow in your life, the hand that holds the knife)
I tried so hard to be strong
  (the darkness keeps you down, the failure's in here somewhere)
Oh my dear was I so wrong
I can't stay here for much longer

Every day I feel you waiting, accidents accumulating
Slips and slights and oversights, more fuel to the fire
Write it in your legerbook, every chance I never took
To keep the walls between from growing higher, higher, higher, higher...

  The shadow in your life
  The hand that holds the knife
  The darkness keeps you down
  The failure's in here somewhere

Oh my dear was I so wrong
  (the shadow in your life, the hand that holds the knife)
I tried so hard to be strong
  (the darkness keeps you down, the failure's in here somewhere)
Oh my dear was I so wrong
I can't stay here for much longer
Will you miss me now I'm gone?
Will you miss me now I'm gone?
Will you miss me now I'm gone?

  The shadow in your life
  The hand that holds the knife
  The darkness keeps you down
  The failure here isn't me 
  The failure here isn't me 
  The failure here isn't me 
  The failure here isn't me