Gifts

[Verse 1]

Wake up coughing, tired, with my face in my hands

Staring at the window as the sunlight demands action

All the energy it takes to close these bedroom blinds

Wrote this selfish sadness on a bathroom wall

Spent half the span of some lost culture's rise and fall

But I'm as clueless as a drooling four year old

[Pre-Chorus]

Still hoping I might find the capacity (capacity)

To let you know I know you're lonely

[Chorus 1]

So here's the last call for regrets

A final slow dance through

The days that we all hold on to

Here's the promises I've made

Tied too tight to undo

An unwrapped gift from me to you

[Verse 2]

Slightly insane on the 18 North Main

Reaching for a small town downtown night rain

Nothing I could say could be worth saying anyway today

Like "Hey, whatever happened to what's-that-guy's-name?"

We get a little older and we look the same: askance

Excuse my failing sense of humour

[Pre-Chorus]

Still hoping I might find the capacity (capacity)

To let you know that we're all lonely

[Chorus 2]

So here's the last call for regrets

A final slow dance through

The days that we all hold on to

Here's the promises I've made

A razor blade, this broken piece of chain

A history left to rust out in the rain