Funny

Inspired by Jaymay, Architecture in Helsinki, Ben Folds, and Meiko. Haha.

 

I

Can make lollipops out of sticks and stones, and I

Can keep the kids from breaking all their bones, and

When the water comes and drowns the shore

I can make anything become no more, no more,

No more

And I

Remember you were sitting next to me and I

Thought of making friends and holding hands and by the

Time I had decided to, you walked away and let me bleed and

Nothing I can say or do can stop this greed I feel, I need to feel alive.

 

I can eat a jellyfish and cactus spines and I can b***h

About the way they stung my lips and burned the whole way down

And I can run a mile and half the good cells in my body would be trashed,

Would be trashed, would be trashed

 

(I don’t run much)

 

But on the sleepless dream I dreamt the whole night long I would have

Grown them all back, taken you to London with a backpack and a boat so

We could sail the whole way to the other side of the world and play a game

Of hide-and-seek under the lovely rain-filled sky I don’t call home

I don’t call home,

I don’t call home…

 

I don’t call you

Because there’s something so nerve-racking about

Hearing your voice shallow through the airwaves of this town…

 

Someday maybe you and I could fall in love and pack our lives

Away to learn the wonders of our bodies and our souls

 

Maybe when you realize she’s no good for you at all then I could

Comfort you and make you ice cream sundaes on the couch and you would

See the whole time you were missing all that’s left of me and thank me

With a hug and smile that promised surely there’s be more…

 

(*)

 

I can make lollipops out of sticks and stones and I

Can keep the kids from breaking all their bones but

When the water comes and drowns the shore

I just watch it flood the rusty door that led me down the path to your

Attention I will never catch.

Author's Note

There is in fact a tune to this, there just isn't much breathing allowed. Heh.