The Man I Knew

By the time that you told me

It was already plain that you've changed

But your conscience was clean

And as white as a line of cocaine

My back to the wall of your bedroom apartment

You're talking in circles

Got your cigarettes burning

And I couldn't hide I'm afraid I was to see you so strange

Don't get me wrong

I've got no ill will for you

It's just been so long

I thought I'd always know you

But you're so far gone

Up where the air gets thin

You cut the kite strings

I've read my name in lights

I've seen my face in papers

But my civilian life I spent 10 good years

Waiting for you

You charmed a snake

You picked the card

You bent the spoon

A curved plane

Shapes change

Euclid's made to play the fool but you

I don't know what that stuff does to you

And I don't know if it's real but

I spent a decade in love with you

And I can't tell if you're here

The man I knew

I don't think that he can hear me now

So dizzy with the altitude

Just too far

Who am I to tell you to come down

(Lucky that my? Don't perversely go poisoned)

Who am I to tell you to come down

(Sit back and raise a glass, a glass to ease your

Choices)

Who am I

To tell you to come down

The man I knew

I don't think that he can hear me now

So dizzy with the altitude

Just too far

Tell you

Last night you came to kiss me in a dream but when I woke

What kind of foolishness is this breathe out a lungful of your smoke

I've seen you?

Let it burn

I've seen you at your brightest what a mind

Let it burn

So who am I to serve you on my terms?

So who am I to tell you to come down