"My Empty Room"
(grandfather clock rings, then ticks)
Empty room today,*and here I sit.*Chalk outline upon the wall,*I remember tracing it*a thousand times, the night she died.  Why?*There's no sleep today.  I can't pretend*when all my dreams are crimes,*I can't stand facing them.  Now who will come*to wash away my sins,*clean my room,*fix my meals,*be my friend?

    The picture fades back into the present.  Nikki has finished reliving the past month in his mind.  Suddenly, the reality of Mary's death and his imprisonment hit him full force.  He cries out, feeling abandoned, empty, and alone.
    The ticking clock adds great effect to this short song.  It brings us back into the present, and gives us insight into the unrelenting torture Nikki experiences.  In essence, time goes on and so does Nikki's anguish.  The wall comes up again, but this time a chalk outline of Mary's dead body is on it.  This demonstrates how the message on the wall spelled Nikki's doom.  Mary's death means he loses what he loved most and, on top of that, he has been arrested and charged with the murder.  His life has been utterly destroyed.