Trace of Contact Lyrics

Time yields a subtle clearness

To things wished forgotten

As hope builds in utter stillness

Do you remember contact with me?

And then it came to me

This abject understanding

That you waited for me

I have learned things

I have changed

I have forgotten things

I have changed

As reams of experience

Form the fabric of our lives

The communal interaction

For which we all strive

Has been pruned from a sick society

And we have changed

Emotional improprieties

Our imperatives rearranged

We are a species estranged

Without a Trace of Contact

And then it came to me

Abject understanding

That you waited for me

The world is flowing at pandemic speed

And we don't know what to believe

Opinions expressed are as bending reeds

For those willing to be deceived

Vacant rooms feel larger in darkness

Just as solitude exaggerates loneliness

This volume of Reality unfolding

A rupture leaking emptiness and longing

It is the fear known to all things alone

We have but one chance

We have learned and we have changed

Through the viral happenstance of separation

We are tamed

But are we truly SAVED?

I am no angel

Not your savior

But I can read the signs

Quarantines and isolation

Conspiracies for weak minds

A Social Distancing nightmare

Never so deprived

Is there anybody out there

Everyone hiding alone inside?

We wear the MASK of the age

Concealing conciliatory RAGE

Intellect encaged

An endgame engaged

Blameless, I

Forgo pride

Striving to persist

In here

Alone and confined

A prisoner despite

All of you I miss

And I fear

No ANGEL am I

No DEVIL Inside

Like the VIRUS

I resist

It is clear

Have no fear

I AM here

Searching for a Trace of Contact with you

Dedicated to everyone we lost to

The VIRUS in 2020