For a friend who's lost someone...

And I’m hurting tonight

And I’m bleeding tonight

Could I ever make this right

Could I ever make it up

Make it up for the things I never do

Make it up for times I screw

Make it up for the months passed by

Making it up, this once I try

I know you’re gone

So far away

So far away that I can never hold you again

So far away that every inch of me is in pain

Pain that echoes out loud

Pain in which I drown

But all I’m thinking right now

Is a chance

A possibility

A shot

A hope

That shimmers

Glimmers, like the faintest starlight

That could bring us back

Back from the ashes 

Of sorrow

Desolation

Into the dreaming light of the sunrise

But all these thoughts

My mind tricking me in a reverie

As the chemicals pour in my veins

Wanting to feel numb

Phlegmatic

To what has happened

To what went wrong

To tranquilize

This melancholy

‘Cause I’m hurting tonight

‘Cause I’m bleeding tonight