Sean McPherson - The Man I Knew lyrics

By the time that you told me it was already plain that you'd changed But your conscience was clean and as white as a line of c**aine My back to the wall of your bedroom apartment You're talking in circles, got two cigarettes burning And I couldn't hide how afraid I was to see you so strange Don't get me wrong, I've got no ill will for you It'd just been so long, I thought I'd always know you But you're so far gone Up where the air gets thin... You cut the kite strings I've seen my name in lights, I've seen my face in papers But my civilian life, I spent ten good years waiting Waiting for you You charmed the snake You picked the card You bent the spoon A curved plane, the shapes change Euclid's made to play the fool, but I don't know what that stuff does to you And I don't know if it's real, but I spent a decade in love with you And I just can't tell if you're here, cause [Hook] The man I knew I don't think that he can hear me now So dizzy with the altitude It's just too far Who am I to tell you to come down? Lucky that my palate still prefers a legal poison Who am I to tell you to come down? Sit back and raise a gla**, a gla** to easy choices Who am I, yeah, who am I, yeah who am I To tell you to come down? [Hook] Last night you came to kiss me in a dream and when I woke What kind of foolishness is this Breathed out a lungful of your smoke I've seen you at your brightest What a mind, let it burn Who am I to pull you down to Earth? Yeah, who am I to tell you to come down?