Lately

It’s the way that I’ve been lately

Too far from all that sanity

You’ve been dragging me up, I’ve been bringing you down

Don’t forget to call me while I’m still around

Hold on, slow me down, it’s all a lie

I’m the rougher type and I don’t know why

Try to make out the scrawl on the notebook lines

All I do I do so I can call you mine

It gets better no it doesn’t believe my tongue

God damn I was the one

So don’t take me wrong I got nothing to hide

Backed against the wall to make me cry

And the stronger now solemn how’s and the I don’t knows

The long lonesome type you know how it goes

Take a swing make it hurt, make me fall to the ground

It’s the way I been since I showed up in town

I’ve been out too late in this town without my shoes

I’d never thought I’d have any reason for the blues

But my hat fell in the dust and I lost the fight you knew

Don’t trust a man who’s eyes you can't see through

So tell me I reached you at the wrong time

Did we fall out of touch before you fell into mine

Something’s saying that the air was heavier

The poet buried his heart in the earth