Two-Part Invention

See how the chips fall where they may

How my lips sink ships, drift astray

How I've mised you, I've been a bad boy

But seventeen, it takes forever and me

I was already on fire, dreaming wth angels

Remember every little thing

You've got to remember every little thing

My child, there, I know

I'm coming to get you, but oh

I'm running so slow, like a dream

And the dawn it is quickening

My friends, they all thought

I was the one who was lost

I learned that irony from the start of my life

Remember every little thing

You've got to remember every little thing

Trumpets peal

I've realized all that's real

And love is a white-golden road

I pave with my blood now

I was a fraction at best

A sad king's court jester, or less

I was a two-part invention

She was my melody

God, she was my melody