Dark auditorium, half of the audience sleeps
I am awake through every display of doubt turning the grave
Pre-Chorus
While you were watching the back of your eyelids
I was awake
verse 2
Broken and battered and split like an atom
In debt to god, but what's it to you
If somewhere a glass jewel breaks
And rings like a bell
Pre-Chorus
Are you bandaging feet or done with the Peace Corps?
I couldn't tell
Chorus
Now I'm putting drinks away
Like a poet on payday
And I'm not toasting your name
Or your good health
verse 3
When twenty years of peace
Fall under the roof of love
And every heart seems
To beat like a broken drum
Chorus
Now I'm putting drinks away
Like a poet on payday
And I'm not toasting your name
Or your good health
Outro
They say the thing about starts
Is you're risking them finishing
And a line of love
Draws maps on your skin
Well that's the about shoes
You know some of us live in them
When it's too late to want love
I'll know where I've been
They say the thing about starts
Is they're made out of finishes
And a longing of love
Draws maps on your skin
Well that's the about shoes
You know some of us live in them
When it's too late to want love
I'll know where I've been
I'll know where I've been