[Hook]
That's the way it goes
[Lish]
You can only be bitter if you once really cared
And you never thought you'd sever everything that you shared
Realize that you've been blinded like a windshield that's glared
And what you thought was real was just another tawdry affair
You're lookin' for the rea**urance but there's just empty air
Like a large starvin' family and their cupboard is bare
All your hope, it left with her like a thing she declared
And your head is now blarin' with this sudden despair
[Smevz]
You're droppin' from the poker parties to solitaire
Like you made your way to heaven but you fell down the stairs
For a stretch you're on a shelf, like you're beyond repair
Feelin' surrounded by the round holes and your peg is a square
You weren't the one and only, just the only available spare
Though maybe it wouldn't burn without bein' spurned unaware
Thinkin' you needed to bring everything for the good of the pair
But it was all about her, like you weren't even there
[Hook]
[Smevz]
Now I can't stop talkin' about a fondness that turned noxious
And my pompous stream of consciousness nonsense has got me nauseous
Ready to check me into a hospice, either legally or with a locksmith
Cuz these things I think and speak are leakin' out like a busted faucet
Life can k** when loneliness is the accomplice
Gettin' seized by teasing memories of every broken promise
Sometimes nothin' feels better, at least the shadows are honest
Don't leave my thoughts and feelings dealing via static tele-conference
[Lish]
Once you've watched it all fall apart like the leaves in August
Don't be shocked if the only response is bein' really cautious
And all that's on the top is how she's probably on some blond adonis
All the proper thoughts are gone ever since it conned your conscience
For a while, life crawls at an awful constant
Every day at the office, every bank deposit
Is this monotonous process, where you're not making progress
Gettin' lost in the context, and you're not gonna comment
[Smevz]
Every night forgetting everything she ever said to me
"Who needs a drink?" I'm like that guy in High Fidelity
Drinkin' away her identity, I'll get it all eventually
Like Joel Barrish, a perilous attempt to get serenity
But I'm a forest that can't see its trees' density
Need the correct perspective for makin' sense out of anything
Can't introduce an evolution 'til I'm admittin' everything
And without that starting point I can't even point to what's next to me
Cuz no story with one side will ever stand steadily
To know the score is more important when forced to do it separately
What if it was her who wrote these words down instead of me?
She isn't innocent but I committed my own felonies
Not easy to be the Beatles and just Let It Be
'specially when it ended like some botched chemistry
But dwelling only weighs it on your brain more heavily
Like Vincent after the robbery, I think it's time we left the scene
[Hook]