the wreckage Lyrics

Wandering the winter wasteland in the snow

Stillness and shadows chill me to the bone

Cradling a wineglass' shattered shape in hands

I come across the ruins of my homeland

I saw you sitting quietly in the midst of the remains

With hands I saw were wounded, you motioned me to stay

We sat there in the silence until you spoke to ask

About the burden that I carried, the bloody shards of glass

I've been trying to hold it all together

Cause I don't know what else that I can do

You asked me for the wreckage: my lacerated hands

And the fragile load they carried, the weight of its demand

I told you "I'm afraid to, it's all that I have left"

I looked into your eyes then; to my surprise, you wept

You said

You've been trying to hold it all together

Because you didn't know what else to do

You don't need to hold it all together

But you won't like what you will need to do