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Putting pennies on the track, shiny and flat, |
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It was the best we could be, sexy and free. |
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I grow away from myself with each passing bell- |
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With all these new accessories, |
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I just stumble and bleed. |
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For a moment |
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I feel the coldness |
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At the end of a |
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Fall day. |
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I put my hands down deep in my pockets |
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As my body awakes. |
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So I'm heading back to school all brilliant and new, |
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Trying hard to fit in and not to walk like a man. |
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A girl that |
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I never noticed asked me to hold this- |
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A secret too hard to tell and |
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I never will. |
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For a moment |
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I feel the coldness |
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Of everything that's been taken away. |
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I put the phone back in the cradle, |
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I can't make this okay. |
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The damage she'll survive |
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But damn the sacrifice of |
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Every life we've lost |
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Damn all the cost of the assault |
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You tied a knot and you dared me, |
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The stem of a cherry, |
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To find my own humanity |
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And just let it breathe. |
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Hold my head up in this moment |
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Keep myself from fading away. |
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Pull my hands out of pockets and |