LCD Readout Jonathan Larson

Liquid crystal digital readout
Floating on a sea of gray
Help me fall asleep
I'm tired, it's nearly the break of day
Never stopping, always running
Your characters fade into one
Comforting, convenient. Silently mocking us
Reminding us of our mortality

Liquid crystal digital readout
Dividing the day away
Counting slowly, measuring moments
If you could talk, what would you say?

When the one becomes the two
Then the two is all there is
Until it fades into the three
And the two has vanished, like the one, but

Can one moment mean more than the rest?
Like the moment when she kissed me?
Was it real? And the others fake?
Or did my heart play a dirty trick on my mind?

Did Elizabeth see into my soul?
Was there even a soul to see?
Clock on the wall, you say don't waste the time
Or the energy to find out...