The Graveyard Near The House - The Airborne Toxic Event

The other day when we were walking by the graveyard near the house you asked me

if I thought

We would ever die

And if life and love both fade so predictably

We’ve made ourselves a kind of predictable lie

So I pictured us like corpses

Lying side by side in pieces in some dark and lonely plot under a bough

We looked so silly there, all decomposed, half turned to dust in tattered

clothes

Though we probably look just as silly now

Bye, bye, bye, bye bye, bye to all this dogged innocence

I can’t pretend that I can tell you what is going to happen next or how to be

But you have no idea about me

Do you?

It left me to wonder if people ever know each other

Or just stumble around like strangers in the dark

Because sometimes you seem so strange to me

I must seem strange to you

We’re like two actors playing our parts

Did you memorize your lines?

Cause I did

Here’s the part where I get so mad

I tell you that I can’t forget the past

You get so quiet now and you seem somehow like a lost and lonely child and you

just hope that the moment won’t last

Bye, bye, bye, bye bye, bye to all this dogged innocence

I can’t pretend that I can tell you what is going to happen next or how to be

But you have no idea about me

Yeah, you have no idea about me

Do you?

Still, there’s always a way around

There’s something tying our feet to the ground

A moment passed, we hear how it sounds

And it seems a little less profound

Like we’re all going the same way down

Yeah, we’re all going the same way down

I’m just trying to write it all down

Cause I write songs, and you write letters

We are tied like two in tethers

And we talk and read and laugh and sleep at night in bed together

And you wake in tears sometimes, I can see the thoughts flash across your eyes

They say, «Darling will you be kind?

Will you be a good man and stay behind if I get old?»

Then the letters all passed through my head

With the words that I was told

About the fading flesh of life and love

The failures of the bold

I can list each crippling fear like I’m reading from a will

And I’ll defy every one and love you still

I will carry you with me up every hill

And if you die before I die

I’ll carve your name out of the sky

I’ll fall asleep with your memory and dream of where you lie

It may be better to move on

And to let life just carry on

And I may be wrong

Still I’ll try

Cause it’s better to love whether you win or lose or die

It’s better to love whether you win or lose or die

It’s better to love and I will love you until I die