HANDSOME MIDNIGHT

Lyrics

Always come in hard with your backlogged opinion
You think you’d expect such a simple submission
But I know you best, and I’ve seen your work
You’d rather have the lash to feel the right about your old quirks

Take it from me as you break all your old ties
Friends can’t hold on when repeating the old lies
Take a breath, and recall your worth
Time to make amends before you join your body to the Earth

And it’s all falling apart
And now you’re headed for a breakdown
And they’re all falling around
Your last gasp without a sound

I saw you pull’n around
That you were coming to the foreground
But you were lost in the woods
Another year would do you good

Only been a week and you’re projecting to the courtyard
Just another tale that you’re recalling like a flash card
Fits the mold, all retold
Thinking for yourself was never somewhere where you had a hold

Take a moment now and listen closely for the first time
If everything you do is full of hate and from an old line
Your lonely place, comes in cold
Time to learn humility and let yourself be to behold

Sometimes, as if waking from a dream
You come to realize
Those you have looked up to
And depended upon the most
Are just as flawed as the simple beggar on the street
Take heed and take care
That you don't lose yourself
To unyieldable ideas and myths
Lest you become the very thing
You promised not to become in your youth
Don't idolize your heroes who will surely fail you
Or defend an impossible ideal that will turn you a moral villain
There is no perfect being or future
But it is important to keep trying, striving, and learning
Because if you're not busy living
You're rather surely dying