Dashboard Confessional - Write It Out lyrics

Yeah I try to write it out
Not sure what I recall
I can't tell if it's memory
Or story telling now
It happened very quickly but it
Seemed to last for hours
And everything was crisp and clean
Till all came crashing down

So much fire and debris that I
Was nearly blind with panic
And there was no one anywhere
To turn to be saved
From the tyranny and cavalcade and
All use was lost

And the more that I would struggle
The more that I became entwined
And the thickets & the thorns became
My flesh and I was vine
Creeping deep into the pavement
Breaking ground as I grew fast
To the center of the city and
Up again where I did gasp
In the air or the breeze and I
Was still alive with a start
And there were people everywhere
To behold and admire
And I longed to be one of
Them and though I was lost
I felt familiar with my surroundings
Though they didn't look quite right
Like someplace that I had been before
Under cover of night
And I found my way by light of
Day to the center of a crowd
And told them I was one of them
And begged them for their help
And with stones they took their aim
And I knew I would die at their hands
Where I was crowned a heretic
To be loathed and
Set fire and laid upon a funeral pyre

And as I cast my eyes to
The sky I felt your touch
So gentle and so soothing that I
Knew I had been saved
But my movements were so labored and
My will had been betrayed
But my lips they were collop now
And to them I am enslaved
And the slightest indiscretions that I
Made were met with rage
And I burned to be free
And then you rescued me
With your voice and beckoned me beside
You and your touch was alive
Sensational and vibrant and with
Care and your words

You say "A secret is a stealthy thing
You cannot know it's plans
You were only dreaming, dear
And now you're here with me again"
You ask if I'd account to you
The spirit of my night
And you handed me this pad and
This pen with which to write
While it's fresh in your mind
Before it gets away before it gets away
Before it gets away before it gets away