Phantom Lux - Flutter / Fade Lyrics

Your twin heartbeat at stake
On the verge of severance
Not yet prepared to forsake
I saw only a person in pain
Light I was desperate to impart
But I disregarded your heart
Denied it time and reverence
Thus our spark could not sustain

Does your heart still flutter?
Did the flutter fade?
Do your thoughts still stutter
Through the sleep that we delayed
And the tether that we made?

Air filled with static
Intense, automatic
Instant, empathic intimacy
We could have been incendiary

Under a black April sky
We unveiled filth and shame
The act that split our seam
Caused by pills and fever dreams
But medicine can't take the blame
Now I'm banished in frost
Only your ghost hears me cry
Future love was the cost
Whose voice would soothe your fadeaway?

No voice to soothe my fadeaway
Just a bright neon vine

Intake destroys affect
Insight destroys respect

Does your heart still flutter?
Has the flutter faded?
Do you think I'm just clutter?
Is your silence jaded?

Can you pause your brain at night?
Will you sing in plain sight?
I don't know you anymore
May you shine brighter than before

You showed me who I wish to be
With hands honest and fair
Captured a still of ideal unity
But our hearts were in disrepair
When I felt our life force drain
A fault ran through my brain
Twisting reminders of absence
Into hints of future presence

I once made your heart flutter
Now you've faded away

So what survived our star's death?
A sheet of paper in a frame
A toy with a singer's name
A voice distorted, short of breath