lyrics to a song i wrote and recorded in 2003 it was an angry time music if requested |
This Broken Step I use to expect things to be just right But I don't do that much no more I use to demand things fall in line for me And if not well then there's the door I use to look down at the things I had With that smirk I was famous for But I sure ain't that reckless anymore Too many people found me dependable For their addictions and their sins Like the chalk marks at a crime scene Needs a victim to lay within But they were all just as expendable And I spent them just as fast I never thought that anyone would last I never knew just what I was Till I wasn't who I am I never cried like a little boy Till I felt the pain of the little man Of all the so called "lessons learned" Pressed upon me by fools and friends It's that the lights just don't go out fast enough in the end It seems I hurt everyone I love I fail a little more every day But I should win sometimes in someone's eyes At least that's what they say A wounded creature in the second act With a story to tell of his own Is better off rehearsing alone I guess I been through a little more than most Of silver cups and silver spoons Of hopes and dreams and ill laid schemes Of dog day afternoons So many years have missing tears I need a fountain to tell the time A broken step in an empty chorus line Across a sky of jellied fire Her spirit's dawning through From a heart strung bow and pinioned wings An arrow swift and true And it might sound so typical Of dramatic poetry But this is all that there is left for me... |