The Ballad of Glen Campbell

Don't say it aloud But my tears have all dried and frozen, waiting Whole months in the black 'Till my yesterdays joined and started feeling new There's comfort in the panic of watching love blur and skew I'm now finally moving along Needed someone to cling to when I met the drop Oh, I swayed from longing to apathy in a breath Certain of nothing but the next cigarette At the drop, at the closing of the pits Oh, I felt the sting of love's once hidden whip Then you came Out the grey You stumbled in Built a bed Cut my hair and Shaved my face I felt her slipping away like a stone at the surface of your Beautiful lake Now I can't remember (I kept all my hurt) The autumn rains (For the good it serves) The scratching of winter (God, how used and trite) The fallen days (Shake when you see it) Oh, baby, you're killing all tought of her softly We woke in the morning to Glen Travis Campbell And I swear, I've never felt so new Oh, I'm so smitten by you Darling, Miss matador Beautiful semaphore You could convince me that nothing else matters at all Don't say it aloud But my tears have all dried and frozen, waiting Whole months in the black 'Till my yesterdays joined and started feeling new There's comfort in the panic of the blur and skew I chased every feeling to empty for you Now I can't remember (I kept all my hurt) The autumn rains (For the good it serves) The scratching of winter (God, how used and trite) The fallen days (Shake when you see it) Oh, baby, you're killing all tought of her softly We came down that morning to Glen Travis Campbell And I swear, I've never felt so new Oh, I'm so smitten by you And now that last year's love has hardened and set Like veins of turquoise through stone I realise that walking away was the closest we had ever got And that childish perception I had was merely A broken eyepiece resting on a broke nose Dying to be shown Well you fixed me a lens and refused the retreat Brushed away the old shards with the crumbs on your sheets Picked up the dream from where it hung Tucked it behind your ear and said "Darling, that's quite enough"