The Other Ones

Hey you with the gun, your face like the sun

Are you having fun?

I'm packing my things as a blackbird sings

To the setting sun

'Cause nothing good is stable, that was just a fable we were told

By those afraid of growing old

You think I'm lonely, but you don't even know me

You're reaching for my laces and my belt so you can save me from myself

And I suppose I should just stand down

Go and wash my hands of this affair like it was never really there

And I suppose I should cash out now

As people go and do this all the time and I will be just fine

But everywhere I go it stays the same

I can't bear to speak your name

I can serenade the shadows from your flame

Until the next one comes

We can lie and tell each other it was fun

As we're burying each other with the other ones

Look me in the eye, explain to me why we put ourselves through this

And run each other dry time after time

You tried to solve this crime within the time you thought was mine

And only wound up being confused

But as the world burned down I ran across the sand to touch your hand

And tell you everything would be alright, but we were terrified

We both got high, you cried, I tried and people died, I couldn't leave your side

Not even when I knew that I should

So tell me it was more than just the photographs we took

Tell me you were with me when I loved you 'til the bedrock shook

Tell me it was more than just a phase

Tell me you were with me at the end of days

And everywhere I go it stays the same

I can't bear to speak your name

I can serenade the shadows from your flame

Until the next one comes

We can lie and tell each other it was fun

As we're burying each other with the other ones

And nothing you can say

Can make it go away