Alice

I look out into the endless smudge of churning blackness, just wishing I could jump into the water and be lost forever. It's dreamy weather we're on. And I know that you can see me, if I cannot see you. You wave your crooked wand, sending your magic into this world. Along an icy pond, with a frozen moon, I sit and wait. Looking in the watery sky, a murder of silhouette crows I saw flew in front of the moon. And the tears on my face refuse to dry. Leaving wet stains down my cheeks. And the skates on the pond, they spell Alice. 1

Looking at it, I disappear in your name. You're gone, but you must wait for me. I will come for you somewhere across the sea where there's a wreck of a ship. And when I close my eyes, I see you. Your hair is like meadow grass on the tide. I focus on anything, to keep my mind off you. And the raindrops on my window, and the ice in my drink cannot keep my mind from wandering. Baby, all that I can think of is Alice.2

Arithmetic, Arithmetock. I want to go back to when I could see and touch you. I turn the hands back on the clock. And you were lost out there. How does the ocean rock the boat? I will never see you again. You are gone, and I remain. How did the razor find my throat? I want to come and find you. Out in that eternal ocean. the only strings that hold me here are tangled up around the pier where I stand. 3

I see your face now, faint in my memory. And so a secret kiss, your shimmering lips on mine, brings madness with the bliss. And then you are gone. And I will think of this when I'm dead in my grave. And I want to go out into the ocean, but I can only glide over the frozen pond. Set me adrift and I'm lost over there. I put on the bladed shoes, And I must be insane to go skating on your name. The letters scratched into the solid surface of the pond. And by tracing it twice, I made your name thicker. I fell through the ice of Alice.4

finally free, I realize, There's only Alice.