As if on cue
They lit a firework
The sky reeled back and I ran fast to get to you
I think you knew
Before the war began
What loving to run towards something can do to a man

Fall over the edge, learn to live while falling
Every laugh is a path worth following
When you put it into words, it's comfortingly bland
There’s so little left to understand

When we're strung up, hanging from the knots we've allowed
We call up our angels to cut us down
"If you could be proud of anything you’ve done
What would it be?" Then they disappear and wе are up in the clouds

I feel the tеnsion shock right through my body
I am wide awake
Shake a laugh from me

I thought one day, I thought I'd find a hole
In my own backyard I'd never seen before
Follow it down underneath that fence
Come back up on the other side, live another life
Break down the door, it's yours for the taking
I held it back until you stopped asking
My eyes are blurred, the clock is ticking
I'm coming up short in a life worth nothing

I hear women in my head with ordinary names (Coming up short in a life worth nothing)
That ring like magic through some malfunction in my brain (I'm coming up short in a life worth nothing)
Your hands were warm when we came in from the cold
I took one and held it and suddenly started to shake

Shake
Shake
Shake

I feel it break, I feel the weight
Of anger, pain and sorrow
Breaking over me
The flags are raised
We walk with no goodbyes and no tomorrows
This is destiny
Memories of the best regrets
I play my song in every single rest
Every note of the symphony
Mend the fence with the best of grace
This is pleasantries to the bottom of the page
I'm sorry