[Chorus: Astronautalis & Tegan Quin]
I know
Leaving's your living, it's built in your bones
No one can ever escape all of your ghosts
So if you walk, you better learn how to run
That's why I wrote this song
Your contrail's coated in broken homes
You polished up this pretty pearl of a hope
I won't parade your skeletons for everyone
That's why I wrote this song (that's why I wrote this song)
That's why I wrote this song (that's why I wrote this song)
That's why I wrote this song (that's why I wrote this song)
That's why I wrote this song
I know you know the words so sing along

[Verse 1: Astronautalis]
She always made the best of deaf and blind
Fashionable dress of canes and signs
Tracing their apparel, like a judge of character in braille
She never missed a lift, a bump, or line
But fingertips will drift and miss a blip from time to time
And this is how we find
Secrets that slipped our grip
Over wit and charm on whispered breath
Frantically fishing for familiarness on fingertips
And this is just...
Shit, what is this?
This is redress
I know her cane is just a comedy
Tin cup's a crutch for crippled honesty
Her slain perception's lame deception
What's astonishing, we bought it see
Every Harry, Dick, and Tom
Left her very fickle palms
Palming a broken promise ring, you follow me?
A hundred strong men choked on the bit
While the blind bride guides the bridle toward the abyss
And this can only end wrong
But motherfuck it, that's the reason why I wrote this song
[Chorus: Astronautalis & Tegan Quin]
I know
Leaving's your living, it's built in your bones
No one can ever escape all of your ghosts
So if you walk, you better learn how to run
That's why I wrote this song
Your contrail's coated in broken homes
You polished up this pretty pearl of a hope
I won't parade your skeletons for everyone
That's why I wrote this song

[Verse 2: Astronautalis]
Lionel Terray said it the truest, I set it to music
We're all "Conquistadors of the Useless"
What kind of fool is so stupid to climb a mountain to do it
Then climb back down to the town without a picture to prove it?I knew it
From the moment I saw your eyes flash wide in the crowd
That you would cut and run; it's too late to turn back now
It’s when those burnt black clouds
Submerge the Earth in shroud
The kings earn that crown
And this is how we rise - by taking a fall
Survive another winter on straight to the thaw
One day you'll learn to strain the tea through your teeth
And maybe find the strength to proceed to the peak
You press on into the thin again and cannot breathe
Swallow so much of my damn pride that it chokes me
The real risk is not a slipped grip at the edge of the peak
The real danger is just to linger at the base of the thing
[Chorus: Astronautalis & Tegan Quin]
I know
Leaving's your living, it's built in your bones (that's why I wrote this song)
No one can ever escape all of your ghosts (that's why I wrote this song)
So if you walk, you better learn how to run (you know you know the words so sing along)
That's why I wrote this song (that's why I wrote this song)
Your contrail's coated in broken homes (that's why I wrote this song)
You polished up this pretty pearl of a hope (that's why I wrote this song)
I won't parade your skeletons for everyone (you know you know the words so sing along)
That's why I wrote this song (that's why I wrote this song)
That's why I wrote this song (that's why I wrote this song)
That's why I wrote this song (that's why I wrote this song)
That's why I wrote this song
I know you know the words so sing along