Houdini Highs Lyrics

At night the demons crawl from my head

I'm memories of a long lost man

I am the feelings that you had

All of the love and damage done

I'm fading out, I'm fading in

Every night I plot my escape

These Houdini highs and reality lows

I am the hanged and Hierophant

The stranger with the raised right hand

I'm fading out, I'm fading in

Every night I plot my escape

These Houdini highs and reality lows

I'm empty rooms and vertigo

I'm drowning by remote control

I got so lost in dying days

The words ran out, they ran away

I'm fading out, I'm fading in

Every night I plot my escape

These Houdini highs and reality lows

'Now this is a house full of shadows

And you're the straightjacket stranger

Lingering on the stairs

Writing over your memories

All the things you intended

The things you want for yourself

Are impossible to say

The words run out, they run away

And you carry that knowledge around

Until it comes to define you

Like a dirty little stain

That spreads beneath the skin

All the pretty little secrets

And the public failures

Drag at your ankles

Like an unpaid bill

A lingering regret

An unfinished life…' (Simon Avery)

Every night I plot my escape

These Houdini highs and reality lows

I'm fading out, I'm fading in