The other day, when we were walking by the graveyard near the house, you
asked me if I 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 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, 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.
End on D#