Double Buckled Dusty Mary Janes

The day is hazy like my brain

Clouding over all my shame

Double-buckled dusty Mary Janes

Keeping perfect time

Counting lines to stay awake

How many hearts do you have to break

The bells keep singing for your sake

On my jester's cap

And I can taste you when I sleep

Like candy in my mouth

I put you under my tongue to keep

And feel you melt away

Smiling eyes will end up hollow

Bitter wine that's hard to swallow

I should have stayed where it was shallow

Than get caught in the undertow

Well it was too soon, now it's too late

Keeping a promise I never made

For now I'll have to ruminate

And maybe cry awhile

And I can taste you when I sleep

Like candy in my mouth

I put you under my tongue to keep

And feel you melt away

"So many nights I waited in vain, singing our songs out in the rain,

But my love, I knew you had my number and my heart, it seems, had run asunder..."

Tick tock goes the mantle clock

Keeping time with my battered heart

Well I never saw it coming dear

But you knew from the start

The day is hazy like my brain

Clouding over all my shame

Double-buckled dusty Mary Janes

Keeping perfect time