Mrs. Ruston - The Pink Spiders

Mrs. Ruston, I survived the rest of your life

Unaware, oblivious, you couldn’t be down

And now you’re given out the combination code

And they know

Mrs. Ruston, time retired all the lights

The electric air expired with the night

But you’re eyes are deep and cut through me

Here in the afterglow —

What a show

And she keeps sketching her dreams

From the back of her mind into the souls of machines

An audience breathes the troubles she’s trying to forget

And these scenes, obviously

Though I don’t know what they said

Somehow I know what they mean

But how can I trust the bridge if I didn’t build it?

Mrs. Ruston, he was waiting there all along

What a fool, but how could anyone think it wrong

To wait, or hesitate from pushing you away

If you’d stay?

And she keeps sketching her dreams

From the back of her mind into the souls of machines

An audience breathes the troubles she’s trying to forget

And these scenes, obviously

Though I don’t know what they said

Somehow I know what they mean

But how can I trust the bridge if I didn’t build it?

The constellations falling slowly from the sky

With blurry edges through the tears that fill your eyes

You’d like to catch them, but you’re too afraid to try

'Cause it might be worth the effort

But it’s just not worth the time

Mrs. Ruston, life resides inside of the grey

And every step reminds me what you said

About losing touch with those you love

And giving yourself away

Every day

And she keeps sketching her dreams

From the back of her mind into the souls of machines

An audience breathes the troubles she’s trying to forget

And these scenes, obviously

Though I don’t know what they said

Somehow I know what they mean

But how can I trust the bridge if I didn’t build it?

When she keeps quiet and clean

Despite the impact, in fact it’s all that she needs

As an ambulance screams a choir to silence the regrets

This one dream, evidently

Was like a flashback trip that was stealing the scene

But how can I trust the bridge if I didn’t build it?