Let It Slip

You're something like safety

I'm no good without you

So hurry home

The voice I'm hearing in my head

Is never the one that falls out

Please hurry back

I've still got this magic way

Of pushing everyone away

Of always waiting too long

To mean the things I say

Always pause for something better

The right words and the right letters

The moments passed

And I've let it slip away

You're something like safety

And I'm no good without you

So hurry home

The voice I'm hearing in my head

Is never the one that falls out

Please hurry back

I could have burned a lighter brighter

I could have shone a little more

I could have pushed our little hope out

A little further from the shore

But the sand is always sinking

The creek's full of this decay

Stop the ceaseless thinking

And get out of my way

But reality's a motherfucker

Preach boldness: Act cold

I've got nothing nice to say

This would hurt less

If I were twenty three

Not twenty nine on the bathroom floor

Trying to get clean