Not Too Soon - Throwing Muses

She colourblind tired eyes

Her hallway aching

She’ll never move him — likes it that way

He’s just a walker and he’ll never stop walking away

It’s not too soon he said

It’s not too soon at all

You might as well be dead he said

If you’re afraid to fall

I said —

I know her

She said —

Why do you stare so hard

Wrapped up like a doll in bad dreams and broken arms

Make these old bones shiver

It’s not too soon he said

It’s not too soon at all

You might as well be dead he said

If you’re afraid to fall

I said —

I know her

The last time I saw you,

You were standing in the dark

And with a freezing face,

I watched you fall apart

It’s not too soon he said

It’s not too soon at all

You might as well be dead he said

If you’re afraid to fall

I said,

done your time

been in your place

I couldn’t look you in the face

and tell you that it turns me on it makes my stomach turn

I know her