Coheed and Cambria Crossing the Frame Lyrics

Home... a silence between glares
That stutters words misleading
Here... give me all you got
With one shot sent to lend me
No... here across the grass,
Between the glass
I know... you're not the one
I left to wait here, helping
I... I left in a sudden rush
And never said why
You... couldn't know
That I had no goodbyes

But I wish that you were
I'm spying on you, Newo
The way that you would've been if
I stayed here at home
I'm giving it up, Newo
How important I could've been to you

Press the steps I take to cross your door frame if
You decide to answer when my fist swings hello
I... I left in a sudden rush
And never said why
You... couldn't know
That I had no goodbyes

But I wish that you were
I'm spying on you, Newo
The way that you would've been if
I stayed here at home
I'm giving it up, Newo
How important I could've been to you

Casting quarters into wells that hold our dreams
You won't believe me... if I told you so
Casting quarters into wells that hold our dreams
You won't believe me... I would if you told me so

But I wish that you were
I'm spying on you, Newo
The way that you would've been if
I stayed here at home
I'm giving it up, Newo
How important I could've been to you

Crossing The Frame
Claudio Sanchez: "In Second Stage, the Writer wrote a love interest for the Character (Claudio). Her name is Newo. 'Crossing The Frame' is the parallels between Newo and Erica Court, the Writer's love interest."

This song isn't necessarily illustrated in the graphic novel, as the album and the comic aren't completely linear. However, Writer begins to parallel the two women in his head. Because Newo represents The Character's (Claudio Kilgannon's) past, Writer begins to resent both Erica and Newo, as does Claudio K. In the graphic novel, Writer and Claudio simultaneously picture a house with a light on in the upstairs window, presumably spying on their past loves, Erica and Newo, lamenting their lost relationships and convincing themselves there is no turning back.