Lyric-a-Day.fm • Page 20

So it goes and now it's gone
The life we choose is how we'll fall
The way we destroy is the art of it all
This portrait illustrates what you made me out to be
These colors never run, they only fade in time

 

Somebody already wrote the book on defeat
so far be it from me to think I'm reinventing anything

 

The things I used to love I have come to reject
The things I used to hate I have learned to accept
And the worst of the three now have to expect

 

And we will never be alone again
Cause it doesn't happen every day
Kinda counted on you being a friend
Can I give it up or give it away

Now I thought about what I wanna say
But I never really know where to go
So I chained myself to a friend
Cause I know it unlocks like a door

 

2 am, I'm thinking 'bout how lucky I've been
I need to take a moment to myself
6 am, I'm thinking 'Bout how lonely I've been
I need to take a moment to myself

 

my favorite circa song/lyrics by far

 

Probably my favorite lyrics from them as well. Anthony has a lot of great lyrical moments but that is one that will never cease to stop me in my tracks.

 

btw i saw your tattoo in the other thread it looks fucking great

 

Thank you so much! I am so happy with it. It's something I've wanted for a long time but I always found a reason not to do it. But, I finally made the commitment and I'm very glad I did.

 

we went and left the dog on the highway median
glaring sky to map microbial floaters against
but it grew dark as we sat ‘hind a car that wouldn’t let us pass
the child in the back didn’t quit waving her doll’s arm
I said “from the age of six this boy did not want to live”
the passing of time hasn’t changed your dad’s pained expression

I felt our diners and our movie theaters in poisoned nighttimes, intumescent and crawling
nonlocalized awakenings, memory’s strange abbreviation

in that other time before I knew you my parents fell asleep bathed in wavering blue
some breathing dogwood trees lined the street, swaying white and pink, carpeting the canopied hall
the shared nightmare of your shut room on a rail through the absence in the morning
hole in histories
we made for some show but pulled off to the side when rain came prismatic, spreading the headlights
then you drove me home
is it teeth-shaking polyphony, grace and completion, or nothing?

 

See you every year and yet we don't embrace
Try so hard for a meaningless exchange
Maybe I could see you on the holidays
I don't bother with remembering
These days are times I rather would forget
Remembering's not helping me yet

Say goodnight, mean goodbye
Know you think my life would stop when you're away
I'll try to forget you on the holidays
Worlds away
Maybe you've forgotten all our yesterdays You're lucky that we're speaking on the holidays

 

Yeah, it's the way we are
We were smoking by eleven and knocking 'round town
Beat 'em ups on my arm
We were never good at selling
Couldn't cut down
And I stay with my father while his friends die of heart attacks
He's got a heart made of stone but he never gets cold 'cause the sun is always on his back

 

Right from the start I knew
You'd set fire in me
And I'd rather be sad with you
Than anywhere away from you
And hey
I can't believe I captured your heart
I can't believe I captured your heart

 

So I’m caught in the golden gone
Castrated
Bold of relation
Separate me
If I surrender too soon
From under the diving bell
Hold me down there anyways

 

If I'm just bad news, then you're a liar

 

More every year
I shine light on edges I tried to unfeel
We've gotta do better than that
Some sortin out
So I'll be sittin on the outskirts if you wanna talk about it
Things in there were just getting so loud

 

this island could have been saved, but some people just choose death

 

Skin caked with sap of pine
Can't catch against my roaring mind
The coat slips off my etched spine
It's a weight no longer carried and I'm freezing

A message to my brother sky
I long to hold your hand tonight
But when up against this summit's height
I'm tense, I'm small, I'm speechless and I'm freezing

 

I took inventory of what I took for granted
and ended up with more than I imagined

 

So much fear to get over
And so much pain to get past
Wish there was a easy way through
Wish there was a way to learn it all
And have my bright new shiny tools
Without the cost attached

I think we've paid enough

 

is it you or is that you with me?

 

And I’d like to think I’m better than this
But I’ve made it clear that I’m not

 

The way she looked at you, tears streaming down her face
You felt the brush of her dress as she walked away
And that’s all that it took, sat down to buy her a drink
An empty or a half full glass, it all goes down the same
And that’s the way that it’s been
Years later she took your name
Hopeful and now unafraid
Your gut sinks each time you see her

 

I want you to know what I forgive you for
Now that you're all ashes anyway

 

I looked up at your window and pretended I could see you
You don't live there anymore