Face Down Forever

Butterfingers, gravity, a heavy hand of fate,

Watched it tumble in slow motion, now I’m standing at the gate.

Zero-point-two seconds for my life to lose its shine,

All the pictures, all the numbers, all the memories of mine.

Did I hear a tiny crack? A splinter in the air?

I’m frozen in the carpet, I’m paralyzed with fear.

Face down! Face down! Face down!

(What’s it gonna be? What’s it gonna be?)

Face down! Face down! Face down!

Don’t touch it, don’t move, let the silence consume me!

The carpet fibers look like mountains, I’m a titan on the floor,

I don’t want to see the damage, I don’t want to know the score.

Will it be a spiderweb of glass across the home?

Or a jagged piece of obsidian where once was my phone?

It’s the existential vacuum, it’s the horror of the wait,

Before I turn the body over and accept my awful fate.

Face down! Face down! Face down!

(It’s a black hole, it’s a black hole!)

Face down! Face down! Face down!

I can’t look, I can’t breathe, let the digital tomb stone me!

Face down... face... down...

(I’m turning it over now... oh no... oh no...)

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!