The Graveyard Near The House

The other day, when we were walking by the graveyard near the house

You asked me if I thought we would ever die

And if life and love both fade so predictably

We've made ourselves a kind of predictable life

And so I pictured us like corpses, lying side by side in pieces

In some dark and lonely blood under a bow

We looked so silly there, all decomposed, half turned to dust

In tattered clothes, but we probably look just as silly now

Bye bye bye bye, bye bye to all this dogged innocence

I can't pretend that I can tell you what is going to happen next

Or how to be

But you have no idea about me, do you?

And it left me to wonder if people will ever know each other

By just stumbling around like strangers in the dark

'Cause sometimes you seem so strange to me

I must seem strange to you

We're like two actors playing our parts

Did you memorize your lines?

'Cause I did. Here's the part where I get so mad

I tell you I can't forget the past

You get so quiet now, and you seem, somehow

Like a lost and lonely child

And you just hope that the moment won't last

Bye bye bye bye, bye bye to all this dogged innocence

I can't pretend that I can tell you what is going to happen next

Or how to be

But you have no idea about me

You have no idea about me, do you?

So there's always a way around

There's something tying our feet to the ground

A moment passed, we hate how it sounds

And it seems a little less profound

Like we're all going the same way down

Yeah we're all going the same way down

I'm just trying to write it all down

'Cause I write songs, and you write letters

We are tied like two, in tethers

And we talk and read, and laugh and sleep, at night in bed, together

And you wake in tears sometimes

I can see the thoughts flash across your eyes

They say "Darling, will you be kind?

Will you be a good man, and stay behind if I get old? "

And then the letters all pass through my head

With the words that I was told

About the fading flesh of life and love, the failures of the bold

I can list each crippling fear like I'm reading from a will

And I'll defy everyone and love you still

I will carry you with me up every hill

And if you die before I die, I'll carve your name out of the sky

I'll fall asleep with your memory and dream of where you lie

It may be better to move on, and to let life just carry on

And I may be wrong

But still, I'll try

'Cause it's better to love whether you win or lose or die

Yeah, It's better to love whether you win or lose or die

It's better to love, and I will love you 'til I die