Roman Ruins

Become fixated on the change

What wouldn't melt would set

Salt wouldn't shake me

Terra cotta (sun burnt) planes

Would not take me away

What I would not accept could not change me

Become fixated on the change

Slam the senses

Shock the house

Bend the walls

I am the one

That keeps the clock working

My eyes must have been trapped

For I am not sleeping

I've got a lot of time

But I haven't been thinking

I've got a lot of time

But I haven't been thinking

I am the one keeping the clock working

Out of sync with the community

Why do you seem so shocked

When I feel so immune to it

I can hear the cat call

And the other cat calls back out of nothing but habit

Is this love or language that they have

Love or madness

The cats call all through the endless night

And I am pretty well trapped

Good manners are gone

These days

I'd rather be ignored

Walking into broken doors

Good manners are gone

I'd rather be ignored than uncovered

What goes on here goes

What grows on me

Goes on

Grows until it's gone

What wouldn't melt would set

Salt wouldn't shake me

Terra cotta (sun burnt) planes

Would not take me away

What I would not accept could not change me

Become fixated on the change

Let's talk about mistakes

Can we get another take

How many takes can you take

I do what I do to keep on moving

Standing still will kill you

So these are my Roman Ruins

I stepped across the thread of someone else

I felt the exhale of his cigarette

What wouldn't change

Accept

Step off the base on which you are set

From the square

Where the morning light flows

To the window where no nights now close

I have been living a life in the crumbling down city

Of my own Roman Ruins

Break the doors down

Bend the walls

I am the one

This house is out time

And I am out of sync

Why do you seem so shocked

When I feel so immune to it

On the phone to patience

Running out of call time

You couldn't get her number around here if you tried

Cried in airport security

Just to jump up the line

Got a direct line to patience

Running out of call time