In one moment, it all can break You pinch yourself, but you're already awake
With no warning, the sky can crack And take something, you never can get back
It leaves a hole that can't be filled But time will let your heart rebuild
The atom bomb, is now just glowing embers With every dawn, I'm feeling stronger still
But despite the slow decay, it never goes away The slow, hypnotic, asymptotic slide Toward letting go
The time passes, in measured steps Most days are better than the rest
Till one day, it's a fading scar So small, but a part of who you are
And though that scar will never heal The mind distorts and time conceals
The atom bomb, is now just glowing embers With every dawn, I'm feeling stronger still
But despite the slow decay, it never goes away The slow, hypnotic, asymptotic slide Toward letting go
The half-life is a dull knife with a blade of rusty steel The memory that's part of me, it never really heals
Every day it's dimming as the cloud around is thinning But the pain, it still is stinging when I sleep
The atom bomb, is now just glowing embers With every dawn, I'm feeling stronger still
But despite the slow decay, it never goes away The slow, hypnotic, asymptotic slide
The once torrential, exponential glide Toward letting go