Only the monitor

The window wears the rain

October in my room

I keep my breathing low

While the screen turns warm and blue (ahhhh)

Cold glass against my hand

Leaves scratch at the street

Every old mistake comes back And sits beside me

I do not turn the lamp on

I let the hours crawl

The screen keeps one small fever Against the freezing wall (ahhhh)

Only the monitor keeps me warm

Blue on my face till the memories blur Cold autumn night,

do me no harm I stay awake where the bad thoughts turn

Only the monitor keeps me warm

(keep me warm)

I count the rain

I mute my name (ahhhh)

Some nights have no doorway

Just corners I know well

A coat across the chair back Looks like a story I cannot

tell

I scroll until the morning

To keep my mind in place

Small letters make a shelter With blue across my face (yeah)

If I let the silence in

It knows my first name

So I hold the screen like fire

And wait out the rain (ahhhh)

Only the monitor keeps me warm Blue on my face till the

memories blur Cold autumn night,

do me no harm I stay awake where the bad thoughts turn

Only the monitor keeps me warm Do me no harm till the

morning comes (keep me warm)

The rain gives up slowly

The room stays cold

I save one little ember

In the monitor glow (ahhhh)