Life Worth Missing

As if on cue They lit a firework The sky reeled back And I ran fast to get to you I think you knew Before the war began What loving to run towards something Can do to a man Fall over the edge Learn to live while falling Every laugh is a path worth following When you put into words It's comfortingly bland There's so little left to understand When we're strung up hanging From the knots we've allowed We call up our angels to cut us down "If you could be proud of anything you've done What would it be?" Then they disappear and we are up in the clouds I feel the tension shock right through my body I am wide awake Shake a laugh from me I thought one day I thought I'd find a hole In my own backyard I'd never seen before Follow it down Underneath that fence Come back up on the other side Live another life Break down the door, it's yours for the taking I held it back until you stopped asking My eyes are blurred, the clock is ticking I'm coming up short in a life worth nothing I hear women in my head With ordinary names That ring like magic Through some malfunction in my brain Your hands were warm Though you came in from the cold I took one and held it And suddenly start to shake Shake Shake Shake Shake I feel it break I feel the weight of anger, pain, and sorrow Breaking over me The flags are raised We walk with no goodbyes and no tomorrows This is destiny Memories of the best regrets I play my song in every single rest Every note of the symphony Mend the fence with the best of grace It's pleasantries to the bottom of the page I'm sorry