Talisman

[Verse 1]

I go out sometimes and I don't wanna talk

I watch people make each other laugh

Keeping my coat on, red light spilling into dawn

Walking to the train wishing I could forget my name

[Verse 2]

I find myself and I'm wrong

Save the hunter, kill the fawn

I find myself and I'm right

Blinking in the harsher light

Nothing's coming easy

If it did, I'd pass it up every time

[Chorus]

Going back again

Telling the old stories, looking out before me

The future's always blurry

Going back in time

I see everything fine

Maybe that's why I've been making stories my whole life

[Verse 3]

I can still remember it, the place I grew up in

We moved a lot, the image being more of a talisman

I hold when it gets dark, a place I can imagine

It's as real as anything that has or hasn't happened

[Chorus]

Going back again

Telling the old stories, looking out before me

The future's always blurry

Going back in time

I see everything fine

Maybe that's why I've been making stories my whole life

[Outro]

What is there to do except to write it down?

When I'm through, there's nothing left

Nothing but the sound