Turn On Me

You can fake it for a while Bite your tongue and smile Like every mother does an ugly child But the stars are leaking out Like spittle from a cloud Amassed resentment counting ounce and pound You're entertaining any doubt 'Cause you had to know that I was fond of you Fond of Y-O-U Though I knew you masked your disdain I can see that change was just too hard for us Hard for us You always had to hold the reins But where I'm headed, you just don't know the way So affections fade away And do adults just learn to play The most ridiculous, repulsive games? On the faith of ruddy sons And the double-barrel guns You better hurry, rabbit, run, run, run 'Cause meeting you was fun And there's a lot of hungry howlers in this one cell We're taking it over Their brittle, thorny stems They break before they bend And neither one of us is one of them And the tails will never mend 'Cause you had it in for me so long ago Boy, I still don't know I don't know why and I don't care You don't hide me anymore If you'd only seen yourself hating me Hating me When I've been so much more than fair But then you had to lay those feelings bare One thing I know still got you scared You're all that cold iron and never once aired of our dead You had to know that I was fond of you Fond of Y-O-U So I took your lips at the time And to change like that is just so hard to do Hard to do Don't let it whip-crack your life And a bow out from the fight 'Cause, oh, how your sisters will write The worst part is over Now get back on that horse and ride