Tall Tale

C'mon restore my faith Tell me that you're safe I'll stop spinning in my grave And drowning in your wake I saw a picture of your face On a friend's Facebook page From an old high school frame You were smiling, full of hate Oh what happened in those woods? So much misunderstood The ghosts that we procure The hangman in his hood And the cards that lost their mint Nothing's permanent In the darkest of hours, it's the seconds you resent Well, I don't know you anymore Can't recognize myself The torch I burned was just one more flame to hell Tried to translate the writing on the wall And if I had to, I'd crawl Back then I'd break my back Just to keep the tale tall When I clicked the shutter, babe Didn't know the soul I'd take But with the sunlight through those drapes Forever was easy to say So I ate my fill of it Until the thought made me sick A spark, a flame, an end Ain't that the nature of men? And the call to see it all We're here and then we're gone Don't act so surprised Don't look so alarmed Well, I can't fool you anymore No, I doubt I ever could Long limbs, tired bones Go home to the lord A eulogy you never thought you'd write But in the moment it felt right Dressed up with nowhere to go We're always losing paradise When trauma stains your skin Start to hear your heart murmur Fear struck you stiff as a board Light as a feather It's like pictures in a book Can't hurt if you don't look Apples fall from trees Just to practice apathy But if it greets you every day Make it go away I close my eyes and count