Grand Experiment

Distant voice, give me your hand tonight
 2: 30 AM and I've lost all lines of sight
 I'm losing power and the basic will to live
 Tell the family that I gave all I had to give
 Switch to backups and the problem persists the same
 Pass the bottle now, rather than the blame
 2: 30 AM and I've lost all lines of sight
 Try to place yourself somewhere in my mind
 And this is all I see the pale light in my eyes
 The broken surface plains the forest in the night
 The ground rise up to meet my moment of descent
 The lights are dimmer now, these moments never last, oh no no
 My mind is racing with regrets of days gone by
 Of distant places I'd go when the time was right
 Snap back to present and shake away the haze
 My fall from orbit can no longer be contained
 Ever closer in these moments of descent
 The controls are slipping now, from my shaking hands
 2: 30 AM and I just had to laugh
 My life had meaning, there's no way to make it last
 And this is all I see the pale light in my eyes
 The broken surface plains the forest in the night
 The ground rise up to meet my moment of descent
 The lights are dimmer now, these moments never last, oh no no
 Seconds, minutes turn to hours in the end
 Drift through life without ever a single plan
 In the end, we are what we leave behind
 Photos, books, and dreams never realised
 What's the legacy that I leave behind
 An empty bottle or a fool with a stubborn pride
 I think I'll smile when I finally reach the end
 Knowing I left this world just as a better man
 And this is all I see the pale light in my eyes
 The broken surface plains the forest in the night
 The ground rise up to meet my moment of descent
 The lights are dimmer now, these moments never last, oh no no