Shrug - Love's Young Nightmare lyrics

Love's young nightmare wipes the corn silk off his face And sees the sins of the last two thousand years fall into place Tangled hair and tangled mind Tangled sense of space and time I strangled wallowing in the waste And he says, "I spent the first half of my life Living twice the life I need and now I'm ashes on the ground" I'd like to wrap myself up in a crystal sheen coccoon Heal myself and everyone around Love's young nightmare smolders through the smoke and scorn That has encircled him and let him cloud since the day that he was born It's getting good at building fences Barbed-wire fences for his senses Senses scattered, battered, torn And he says, "You know it's good to be a soul mate But it's better being scarred 'cause you appreciate it more" And I'll take scars above the stars above that shine Down on us all here strewn across the floor Forgive me if this song sounds breathless, rude, and wrong But it's been building up inside I've been suppressing for so long It's been building up inside I've been suppressing for so long So long So long So long So long Love's young nightmare lived a long, long time and then He faded out, headed in and lost himself again and again and again and again And nothing bothered him nothing in the least Or so he said he said he said he said he said Except when I remember and when it rains or snows and when the monkey shows his teeth And when the sunlight hits my eyes and when the clouds roll in And when I walk, and talk, and eat, and sleep, and breathe, and when I