Existing here in this aftermath

Sometimes I think the whole city is haunted

A ghost on every corner

Begging to be saved

Asking you the way home

But it is a wish you cannot grant

For you are lost as well

Three years retracing my own footsteps

A thousand days inhaling that smoke

Looking at a thousand empty rooms full of people

Trudging down countless stairs

And never reaching safe ground

I close my eyes and I know

I have stayed on these streets a lifetime too long

Existing in this no man’s land

There are days I know the whole city is haunted

I see a ghost on every corner

How they plead to be saved

Just this one time

Just for a moment

Salvation

They peer into these thousand year old eyes

They need to know the way home

Alas, it is a power I do not hold

For I have yet to find my own way

Three years hearing broken voices

That never found their way across the wire

A thousand calls echoing through these halls

Ringing inside my head

A thousand endless days filled with dread

Knowing what is coming

Having seen it a thousand times

Forever powerless to act

Feeling the force of three thousand lives ebb

And finally fade out

I open my eyes and know

I will walk these streets a thousand years more

Existing in perpetual twilight

I am the ghost you see on every corner

Tell me the way home

If you know

Save me

If you can

Just this one time

Just for a single moment

Just for a timeless, split second

Save us all