Meaningless Names - Phinehas

Counting days with each cell door creak

I know the number of every chain link

Grieving walls draw near to mind

The deafening hush of waiting to die

Hold fast to hope of another day

Hold fast;

it can’t last forever

The meaningless names of far off places

I have to believe something better awaits

I sense a waste in every exhale

Breath escapes iron bar and nail

Forgotten silence condemned

Darkness as my only friend

But hold fast to hope of another day

Hold fast;

it can’t last forever

The meaningless names of far off places

I have to believe something better awaits

I have to believe something better awaits

I am waiting to die among a swarm of flies

Every day is a lifetime in chains

Every day

Hold fast to hope of another day

Hold fast;

it can’t last forever

In meaningless names of far off places

I have to believe something better awaits

Hold fast to hope of another day

Hold fast;

it can’t last forever

In meaningless names of far off places

I have to believe something better awaits

I have to believe

I have to believe