False Starts


Faltered with some innocence
In a sea of looming doubt
Was this world still born irrelevant?
From our childhood fears somehow

Brought up past each sheltered life
As these changes cut too deep
Though I'm not sure how it came to this
With mistakes that all repeat

I keep counting the reasons
For all connections that I've tossed aside
You know it used to be so easy
Now it's hard to find a place to hide, a place to hide

Love is a dream that I gave away
I left it with the homeless hearts that pray
For something to exist, now it's trailing on your lips

Everybody knows what I had to do
As the meanings come apart, we can't follow through
I'll be lost in the abyss, for a moment such as this

Caustic thoughts may come and go
With behaviours ill-informed
We can't stop our past from screaming out
In this ever changing war

No one sees it anymore
No one sees it anymore

So I keep counting the reasons
For all connections that I've tossed aside
You know it used to be so easy
Now it's hard to find a place to hide, a place to hide

Love is a dream that I gave away
I left it with the homeless hearts that pray
For something to exist, now it's trailing on your lips

Everybody knows what I had to do
As the meanings come apart, we can't follow through
I'll be lost in the abyss, for a moment such as this

Past desires that get set loose
Pushed aside in violet hues
Every lifeline we've confused
I saw the rope, you tied a noose

Winter pushed our springtime through
But summer still can't be exhumed
Left in shackles, bound and bruised
There's nothing else for us to do

As all the autumn leaves change and fall back down
We'll listen to the silence when they hit the ground
Past this sea of breaking waves, we can watch the sky turn grey

You brought me to the place where I need to be
I had to get a little bit of gravity
But there's nothing left to say, as the seasons slip away

It's calling out again, it's calling out again
It's calling out again, it's calling out...

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