With split lips oh a smile can be hard

Dirt blood grit a catalogue of youthful scars
The made it clear from the very start that pain lies beyond the cries
Of damned young hearts
Does it show in my sunken eyes that these concrete skies move too slow

Tarmaced seas a breeze from lonely nights

Blood drips down my knees I'm sick of worthless fights

Does it show in my sullied smile that it's not my style

Time slows let me go

But I just let things slide in the glow of pale lights as our laughter
Splits the night

In time I'll grow to find

That all we'll ever have are blissful moments quickly passed

It's obscene they're so few and far between

I'll take my solitude and I'll take calm

All my hopes were chewed and spat out with charm

Faith entwined all my deepest fears and my strange ideas youth might be kind

But I just let things slide in the glow of pale lights
As our laughter splits the night

In time I'll grow to find

That all we'll ever have are blissful moments quickly passed
It's obscene they're so few and far between