Simon Joyner - Oxygen lyrics

I burned all the love letters I had ever received And I took the hot ashes and laid them at the cold queen's feet But she didn't shed a tear at all She just gave the order to raise a wall To keep the lovers out and the others in Then I was free to leave Well I thought it was safe to turn around rest and relax What with all those familiar faces piled up in the past But with a trail so scorched and torn and poorly patched There are holes that pull the precious into a collapse If you stop to blink So don't be surprised If your memory dies And your will simply fades Like a marching parade Dwindling down a dark street Did your heart skip a beat Or did time pa** you by While you were wiping the sand from your eye? I thought you were going to follow me through these lonesome valleys But now I'm facing scraping this stone wall all alone And all the ghosts who once pursued me And routinely abused me They're no longer enthused enough To do me any wrong So it goes I ran across a stranger who said he knew me when He said "Last I heard you were in need of some oxygen So tell me how can you hear the phone to say That there ain't nobody home today When you're drifting along the bottom of the ocean?" I said "I'm afraid we've never met" So don't be surprised If your memory dies And your will simply fades Like a marching parade Dwindling down a dark street Did your heart skip a beat Or did time pa** you by While you were wiping a tear from your eye?