The piano plays raw

Stipe sings

“You I thought I knew you

You I thought you knew me”

And i am 18 years old again

Alone surrounded by friends

Far and away from home

Because it’s what I wanted

How could I have known

What i wanted?

This voice makes me yearn

For what I do not know

And i could shut it off

I learned how to do that

When I lived in the dark

But i don’t want to

I will swim in it

Until it goes away