Seeing you lie there
Forever entranced with sleep
We’re just the herds of sheep
Saying our goodbyes
Without anymore lies
I want to keep you with me
It was too late to see

Cold hands, shivering palms
The lifeless body of your calms
I see you take the escape now
But why did you have to go?
Please stay here tonight
You are the family’s hovering kite
The spirit of these past fortunes
Even with all your misfortunes
You were loved by many
I’ll keep you close to my heart

You’ll be off to a better place
All my faith in you will carry on
Heading off to that golden pond
Loving arms and warm embraces
We’ll hold onto your memories
Rest peacefully, for these last ten years
There are no more spears
If only this wasn’t the factor
The goodbye to my gray haired actor
Just keep your watch overhead
While we dream of you in our bed

These ruins of this broken marriage
Can’t we pull away without a carriage?
You ran away from these troubles
I just sat around in those puddles
Afraid of being alone as you took off
Tied in knots like how we were first
Left to wonder what was so wrong
Darling, please don’t be gone

What was so bad that made you run?
How can we be so far from being done?
We have so much to say, so much to do
You stop yourself to close your eyes
Making everything of distant memories
You danced away into the darkness
Out of sight, out of mind
You are one of a kind
You’ll be those flower dancing girls I’ll never get over
I’m a mess my dear red rover
Come back to me, please
No more of this tease

Then you combed your hair onto your shoulders
Dropping your eyes onto me like boulders
Leaving this tender whisper in my ear
We’ll be together someday
Just waiting for the again day
Come back to me my dear
I promise, please don’t fear
She flees from the distance of the phone
Disappearing into the adventurous unknown
Listening for her voice to return
Checking for the redial turn
Waiting for my flower dancing girl

Smash cut to my alarm clock
We’re in a movie
This is the story of an apathetic college guy
He meets a silly white girl who he spirals into love with
She wears black and smiles with such honesty
I need to look for any possible sign at all
I hate tripping onto my own fall

Smashing my face on the pavement
Let’s move that to a zoom in, close up
Plot Conflict, Disappointment to see you walk with some other guy
The antagonist of this quote on quote love story
No standing chance to be with you
Watching you walk away
Every single day
Not a chance, Old Sport
Only hearing the echo of your laugh
What kind of **** is this?
How did I overlook this?
Someone give me a fighting chance!

Panning Shot, I try to find your usual trail
To share something with you
To make this lame-*** movie interesting
A common thing, a simple thing
Playing with your hair or taking on a dare
The end is coming soon
And I never even got a chance
To try to have you dance
For the final scene
What a wasted chase for such a pretty girl
Cut to black

The flash of that camera shook us all
We separated all at once after the parties
Disappeared from our lives
We only hear stories of your journey
Making it big or breaking it all
You got the pretty girl going to Utah
The quiet acquaintance moving to Florida
Best Friend staying in touch 500 million miles away
I see you all and I’m just the lonesome castaway
I’ll stay here and sink in these past to present events
I look back at all those fun times and think of you all
But why did it have to end so soon, who dropped the ball?
Oh yeah, the ******* end was coming
We just didn’t notice that impending doom
The end of apathetic youth they call it
What a strike from a reality hit
We’ll bump into each other and talk on long bus rides
Let’s try to do something together
Or does this mean you’re moving on?
To bigger, better things?
Or are you just **** tired of me?
How can it be?
We were such good friends
Another wound with that knife
I guess that’s just life

This innocence and blindness we had
I wish it never made me feel bad
It was nice to not be subjected to this mindset
Keeping positive thoughts and familiar optimism
All those are forgotten before you even grow up
Trying to retain that shield from the outside
Just learning to live with the tense ride
It was a crazy time, it was a crazy moment
It was just a stage that we didn't understand
Let’s move on from this and fake our smiles
Show off our eyes instead of our scars
Move along with the few and not the rest
We’ll stick around and stay with the best
The club of the few, you and me only
Maybe we can grow up and be boring
But let’s be kids for a little while longer now
You want to ask me how?
We just tell each other stupid jokes
Laugh at that incomplete farm house
Let’s just find some kind of happiness
Let’s just find that innocence
Let’s avoid all these little problems for a little while longer
Thank you, my dear

We ran away together from those naysayers
Escaping the criticism of the one act players
Running around, it’s close to midnight
You have to go, but please stay here
We’ll hide under blankets and set the light
We were never meant to be
You even said that to me
But I couldn't give a ****
I’ll follow you all over, darling
These are just broken blossoms & blooms

Young love and shattered promises
Sounds like a typical high school love story
But who could care, we sure as hell didn't
You fluttered around my head with worry
I said darling try not to hold onto that fear
Just take the freedom and run
Embrace your excitement

Your father asks where you've been
Finding my prints on your window
I never knew it to be
When we could never see
What we couldn't grasp with those broken blossoms
And Shattered blooms we shared together

It was a Tuesday Night
Curtains open to our favorite band
Send out that extreme laser light
Loud Music and Rock N’ Roll
The stench of **** and love carry onward that night
This pretty girl grabs my hand and we share the sight
Large screams and the heavy sounds roam the room
We stay close together, only eyeing each other
Just sharing silent conversations at one another
No words spoken, no shyness hinders
We share this common interest
Your red hair flows down the back of your gray shirt
Your brown coat tied around your waist
We’re just getting ready for the bass
We dance the night away with Starlight
Oh, how we could stay like this, we might
The Encore ends and we part ways
You dissipate into the crowd
Only left with the mystery and memories of your presence