I know, leaving’s your living, built in your bones

No one can ever escape all of their ghosts

So if you walk, you better learn how to run

thats why I wrote this song

Your contrail’s coated in broken homes

You polished up this pretty pearl of a hope

That I won’t parade your skeletons for everyone

That’s why I wrote this song

I know you know the words, so sing along

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 a line

But fingertips will drift and miss 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 a 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

I know leaving’s your living, built in your bones

No one can ever escape all of their 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

That I won’t parade your skeletons for everyone

That’s why I wrote this song

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, but it’s too late to turn back now

It’s when those burnt black clouds submerge the Earth in shroud

That kings earn their 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

Press on into the thin again till I cannot breathe

I swallowed 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

I know leaving’s your living, built in your bones

No one can ever escape all of their 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

That I won’t parade your skeletons for everyone

That’s why I wrote this song

I know you know the words, so sing along