Anthony

The building was burning, the plaster was crumbling I lost my sense and I ran back inside The groan of the floorboards, and heat spreading under them Billowing smoke, in my throat and my eyes The kitchen ablaze and the wallpaper curling The table where you and I figured it out At two in the morning, alive and uncertain Just talking in circles, dreaming aloud Anthony I’m afraid, alone in the building, the billowing flame And I lost my mind I guess I thought i knew what forever meant A crash in the hallway, the photographs falling The shattering glass, like rain coming down The one of you standing, your hands in your pockets The look on your face, obscured by the sun Anthony I’m afraid, alone in the building, the billowing flame And I lost my mind I guess I thought I knew what forever meant The heat and the hunger, the smoke in the sky The feeling of losing, and something on fire And up in the bedroom, the curtains all blackened The bed where I loved you beginning to burn I opened the window where I used to call you Below in the garden you’re already gone Anthony I’m afraid, alone in the building, the billowing flame And I lost my mind I guess I thought I knew what forever meant I thought I knew what forever meant