For So Long
Popularity ยท Low
YouTube
Searching YouTube...
Lyrics
For so long you didn't know us
You knew us through the lens of the games
The constructs
The money
The land
The names
The places
And the expectations
And the terrible guilt
You knew your idea of us
And we knew that too
Now they're all gone
There's no names
There's no games
And there are some things
Some photos
Some stories
There's no money
No land
And now there's no fog
You are beginning to know us
And now you see us
You hear us
You have always loved us in some deep place
And I know that
But you have not known us
To love us really
To know us
Now there is still time
Not much
We began to know you
To see it all better
To feel something
Why?
That just made no sense
We told and retold and spun juicy versions
And that's probably not all right
It's just too much fun to go there
But something just didn't add up
It's the pencil
The envelope
It's the only woman she was never nice to
It's the secreted jobs
The moving around
The lying
The game playing
The hustling
The bullheaded blindness
The deep loss of the truth
It's the Sunday shoes
The comb
The Veal Five and Old Spice
The clothes brushes arrayed on the marble top
Weapons in plain sight
You spent her savings
And gave away our dog
"What did I ever do to her?" you asked
Unmoored and flailing
We asked ourselves
"Why are we still here?"
This is what was
And that over there is what could have been