Ripping Out Old Carpets

What we thought we could run from followed us to The place where curtains covered the windows we climbed out When we were young and reckless, facing twisted lessons That smeared our perspectives Forced us to clean up the act in our lives I think it was a sign What we thought we could run from followed us to The place where curtains covered the windows we climbed out When we were young and reckless, facing twisted lessons That smeared our perspectives Forced us to clean up the act in our lives I think it was a sign So we will rip out the carpets, change the sheets We aren't the people we used to be Because we were hollow like the bottles we drowned in as teens Distracting us from stepping on shards of broken dreams Broken dreams What we thought we could run from followed us to The place where curtains covered the windows we climbed out