Subtle Words - Pentimento

I continue to wonder to myself if it ever had occurred to you

That pulling out the bricks might cause Our Walls to crumble

Oh, what subtle words you use to make things up

To hide how you have changed and what you’ve become

All in all you just wanted a place to belong.

(where you’re never wrong)

How quickly everything changes

Once I’m gone, I’m gone for good

Oh, what strong words you use to make things up

About the ways you swear that I’ve changed

But I don’t feel shame for not feeling guilt for what I’ve become

Until I’m bones in a box, I never will

I never have.

I never will

Oh, what subtle words you use to make things up

About the ways you swear that I’ve changed

But I don’t feel shame for not feeling guilt for what I’ve become

Until I’m bones in a box, I never will

I never have.

I never will

I never…