It all comes back in flashes
In blinding flickers of light
The teardrops that clung to her lashes
The echoes of a fight
Memories lie embedded
In the pale scars mangling her wrists
The voice she'd always dreaded
The hard, white-knuckled fists
I tried to take away the pain
The heartbreak of her past
I tried, but it was all in vain
She came and went so fast
I almost cracked that Lilac- code
But she left with no goodbye
Just like my Lilac had forebode
I'd never see her cry
So why do I go on
With fake smiles and hollow lies?
Why live to see another dawn
When I could just close my eyes?
I could join her in the After
Between the Now and Then
And maybe her fake laughter
Can become real again
The key to the After's a kitchen knife
The lock, my broken heart
The key will swiftly end this life
And Lilac and I can restart
So I gladly take the silver key
And unlock the After Land
So she and I will become 'we'
And we'll depart, hand in hand
