Collusion

It was a chance you took: everything was good
 Until you went back inside for a second look,
 Holding out your hand, did you understand,
 Crossing all of those lines and crawling back,
 Slipping from your skin, you couldn't keep it in
 Overgrown, wearing thin, silent, as you whined around
 At another sound, you missed your turn, slowing down,
 Caught in the lights and left again
 Without the time to forget, coming up for air
 From the hollow prayer you were sleeping through
 As you went nowhere, the cold would come as they'd always done
 And run into almost anyone
 Curled in the rocks beyond their days
 Leaving the rest to find their way,
 The tempered tried as they rushed to hide,
 Already gone with no goodbyes, locked-up and out of key
 You'd hear them sing the distant songs with familiar rings,
 Luring you out until you could remember the chance you took.