Nothing else matters,
says the muttering others,
smiling over the rims of the
bottles tipping into their mouths.

And standing still are you and me
caught in between shaking hands and a smile,
our camera faces smeared onto our fingers
leaving maps on our record.

No, nothing else compares
to our looks dragged into stares
As avid as one with their head down
and their mind gone.

That is you and that is me,
we're torn by forces we cannot feel,
or stretch, down from the bottom of nowhere,
Winding too far for one to see.

Why worry about a thing? Music's playing
and thoughts run thin-
No one's complaining about evil within
when they're too eager to hide it themselves.

For only one night.Because only one night
is all one ever gets. because one night
is the one thing between two people
on levels that aren't the same.

We only wanted to last forever
because that's all anyone wants to do,
last forever until the color fades from our eyes
We're so glad to see you, again.

Nothing else matters, says the man
with his head in the noose, looking down
Focusing in on nothing, reciting lines in his head
postponing the reality
that is only seconds
he will be dead.