They say everything can be replaced
They say every distance is not near
Yet I remember every face
Of every man who put me here…
Nny looked on as Devi checked out books for random people. Even though he had let go, he still recognized her. She was still an angel, if not as ethereal. An angel without wings, without halo, yet still heavenly just the same. So perfect. So unlike the others.
I see my light come shining
From the West down to the East
Any day now
Any way now
I shall be released
He walked on throughout the city. No feelings for a Brainfreezie, no recognition of the insulting morons around him. Just emptiness that was frozen inside him without cold.
They say every man must need protection
I heard them say every man must fall
And yet I swear I see my reflection
Somewhere so high above this wall…
Nny could swear he'd lived this scene before, except from a different perspective. Looked in the same windows, saw the same people, walked the same footsteps. It was déjà vu all over again.
I see my light come shining
From the West down to the East
Any day now
Any way now
I shall be released
And he wanted to get away. From everything. He saw himself as empty as a shell. No feeling, no voices, no drive for anything at all. He wanted out, and he wanted it now.
Standing next to me in this lonely crowd
Is a man who swears he's not to blame
And all day long I hear him shout so loud
Cryin' out that he was framed
Johnny was in the city again. He'd been gone for hours now, yet he never knew it. It was afternoon, a golden autumn. The season of dying plants. He walked past the bookstore, never stopping, even though he glanced in.
He didn't recognize the girl behind the counter anymore.
I see my light come shining
From the West down to the East
Any day now
Any way now
I shall be released