Life Worth Missing

As if on cue

They lit a firework

The sky reeled back

And I ran fast to get to you

I think you knew

Before the war began

What loving to run towards something can do to a man

Fall over the edge

Learn to live while falling

Every laugh is a path worth following

When you put it into words

It's comfortingly bland

There's so little left to understand

When we're strung up, hanging from the knots we've allowed

We call up our angels to cut us down

"If you could be proud of anything you've done

What would it be?"

Then they disappear and we are up in the clouds

I feel the tension shock right through my body

I am wide awake

Shake a laugh from me

I thought one day

I thought I'd find a hole

In my own backyard

I'd never seen before

Follow it down

Underneath that fence

Come back up on the other side

Live another life

Break down the door, it's yours for the taking

I held it back until you stopped asking

My eyes are blurred but the clock is ticking

I'm coming up short in a life worth nothing

I hear women in my head

(Coming up short in a life worth nothing)

With ordinary names

(I'm coming up short in a life worth nothing)

That ring like magic through some malfunction in my brain

Your hands were warm, though you came in from the cold

I took one and held it

And suddenly started to shake

Shake

Shake

Shake

Shake

I feel it break

I feel the weight of anger, pain and sorrow

Breaking over me

The flags are raised

We walk with no goodbyes and no tomorrows

This is destiny

Memories of the best regrets

I play my song in every single rest

Every note of the symphony

Mend the fence with the best of grace

It's pleasantries to the bottom of the page

I'm sorry