Safe Truth

Running out of money like I ran away from Asheville

Teardrops in the corners of my eyes will make me bashful

But you can't hide the truth, when it's pouring out of you

just like the liquor that you're pouring down your throat

And I believe that sarcasm is just a form of safe truth

Filtering the feelings that you're trying not let loose

But you can't fool them all, no your bluffs will all get called

And they'll all see you for what you really are

Confused, and a little bit scared

And completely unprepared to face this next chapter of life

Without a reading light in the dark

And I've been kicking through the leaves

Like I've been kicking through my plans at night

Every time I think they're set in stone

It changes like a stoplight

It goes from green to red, before you know it

You'll be dead, and the yellow light just warned you

All along to slow down

All these kids are preaching about living fast and dying young

I suppose I'm into that cuz growing old don't seem as fun

You gotta get it while you can

Before you're forced to be a man

And start doing things the way they should be done

In control, and aware, that you've got to make them care

And the only way they'll care is if someone tells them that it's cool

So is it cool?