[Verse 1]
Love, your enemy is time
It's too soon to set it straight
Too late to keep you on the narrow
For this pressure on my chest
That never lets me rest
Is building with each new tomorrow

[Chorus]
For what we needed most, was only just a ghost
A vapor trail, a plane gone by
A bridge of smoke that fades before our eyes
We’d cross the rope, but our balance is a joke
We're human after all, still there's no excuse to fall

[Verse 2]
This mortal will, more rust than flesh
Turned by the creeping bitterness
Aging machines, no soul to offer
Crushed by the burdens of our fears
Carried alone for all these years
Programmed to flee, too weak to bother

[Chorus]
For what we needed most was only just a ghost
A vapor trail, a plane gone by
A bridge of smoke that fades before our eyes
We’d cross the rope, but our balance is a joke
We're human after all, still there's no excuse to-
[Bridge]
Afraid of letting go, we claw the dirt and move the earth
Reclaiming rotting vessels of our love
Animating corpses to dance like they're rejoicing
As the audience is stifled by the actors in our show
But it must go on

[Verse 3]
We were the cause, we are at fault
We cannot draw from empty vaults
With vacant hands, we're left to ponder
If only then we had been told
Infatuations would grow cold
We might have more than ash to squander
I'll always wonder...

[Outro]
Was it a vapor trail?
A vapor trail
Are we a vapor trail?
Vapor trail