"Write It Out" by Dashboard Confessional

[Note: This is the hidden track before "Don't
Wait". It can be found by re-winding the first track on
the cd.]

Yeah I try to write it out, not sure what I recall
I can't tell if it's memory or story telling now
It happened very quickly but it seemed to last for hours
And everything was crisp and clean till all came crashing
down

So much fire and debris that I was nearly blind with panic, 
and there was no one anywhere to turn to be saved 
from the tyranny and cavalcade. And all use was lost.

And the more that I would struggle, the more that I became
entwined
And the thickets & the thorns became my flesh and I was
vine.
Creeping deep into the pavement, breaking ground as I grew
fast
To the center of the city and up again where I did gasp 
in the air or the breeze and I was still alive with a start 

And there were people everywhere to behold and admire
And I longed to be one of them and though I was lost
I felt familiar with my surroundings, though they didn't
look quite right
Like someplace that I had been before, under cover of night.

And I found my way by light of day to the center of a crowd 
and told them I was one of them and begged them for their
help.
And with stones they took their aim, and I knew I would die
at their hands
Where I was crowned a heretic to be loathed and set fire and
laid upon a pyre of fire

And as I cast my eyes to the sky I felt your touch, 
so gentle and so soothing that I knew I had been saved, 
but my movements were so labored and my will had been
betrayed
But my lips they were collop now and to them I am enslaved.
And the slightest indiscretions that I made were met with
rage
And I burned to be free and then you rescued me 
with your voice and beckoned me beside you and your touch
was alive. 
Sensational and vibrant and with care and your words 

You say ?A secret is a stealthy thing, you cannot know its
plans.
You were only dreaming, dear, and now you're here with me
again.?
You ask if I'd account to you the spirit of my night
And you handed me this pad and this pen with which to write.
While it's fresh in your mind. 
Before it gets away
Before it gets away
Before it gets away
Before it gets away?