The Graveyard Near The House
The Airborne Toxic Event
The other day when we were
walking by the graveyard
near the house
you asked me if you thought
we would ever die
And if life and love both
fade so predictably
we've made ourselves a kind
of predictable life
And so I pictured us
like corpses
lying side by side in pieces
in some dark and lonely
blood under a bow
We looked so silly there
all decomposed
half turned to dust
in tattered clothes
but we probably look
just as silly now
Bye bye bye bye
bye bye to all this
dogged innocence
I cant pretend that
I can tell you
what is going to happen next
or how to be
But you have no idea
about me do you
And it left me to wonder
if people will ever
know each other
by just stumbling around
like strangers in the dark
'Cause sometimes you
seem so strange to me
I must seem strange to you
We're like two actors
playing our parts
Did you memorize your lines
'Cause I did Here's the part
where I get so mad
I tell you I cant
forget the past
You get so quiet now
and you seem, somehow
like a lost and lonely child
And you just hope that
the moment wont last
Bye bye bye bye bye bye
all the dogged innocence
I cant pretend that
I can tell you
what is going to happen next
or how to be
But you have no idea about me
You have no idea
about me do you
So there's always a way around
There's something tying
our feet to the ground
A moment passed
we hate how it sounds
And it seems
a little less profound
Like we're all going
the same way down
Yeah we're all going
the same way down
I'm just trying to
write it all down
'Cause I write songs
and you write letters
We are tied like two
in tethers
And we talk and read
and laugh and sleep
at night in bed together
And you wake in tears sometimes
I can see the thoughts
flash across your eyes
They say Darling
will you be kind
Will you be a good man
and stay behind if I get old
And then the letters
all pass through my head
with the words that I was told
About the fading flesh
of life and love
the failures of the bold
I can list each
crippling fear like
I'm reading from a will
And I'll defy everyone
and love you still
I will carry you with me
up every hill
If you die before I die
I'll carve your name
out of the sky
I'll fall asleep
with your memory
and dream of where you lie
It maybe better to move on
and to let life just carry on
And I may be wrong
But still I'll try
'Cause it's better to love
whether you win
or lose or die
Yeah, It's better to love
whether you win
or lose or die
It's better to love
and I will love you
'til I die