Sick with regret, you sputter out.nYour flame swallowed in doubt.nLight the cigarette and take a breath,nthe smoke inflates your chest and thins your blood so you bleed less insidenLeft with the mess that came about,nwhen you chose to live withoutnOn foreign shores you fight or dienLife's thrown before your eyes and takes it's tollnon your calloused empty soulnnHow long, how long will we be desperately alone,nhow long, how long?nHow long, how long will we have to pay for what we've done, how long, how long?nnWhat we would give to feel alive!nThrought the fog, a muffled cry,nThe anchor's lost and so am InWe fall victims to the tidenI'm free to drift and free to die on my terms nownnSick with regret, you sputter out