i) After all



Following everything I've known

I was wondering all alone

Waiting for a time that might have been

My own way down



Suddenly everything is wrong

have I really been gone so long?

Hanging by the nails

Across my idle eyes so wide



And after all the days of fading senses

This has taken more

Than I had to give

If we face the one we've been avoiding

And I'm out of all control again

Let me go



Gathering comforting remains

I was unprepared, running scared

Faltering, and why do I hold on?

It's gone, I know



And after all the days of fading senses

I don't feel the same

And I want to live

The insecurity of never knowing

Has the race been run

And is the long day done?



ii) Fading senses (instrumental