Pick a Place and Read

Well, I said, "Take it or leave it" And she left it on the bedroom floor There was quiet in the corners There was trouble in a bag behind the door And all the lies too oft repeated They were seated in repose upon the porch And in the midst of all this clamor Is the struggle to remember us before Now that you're holding up your diary every time we meet Saying, "This may be the single saddest book there'll ever be" Sit down beside me Pick a place and read And I will hear you And I will hear you And on that day you took your turn I sat with loneliness, we learned Hungry as the desert sun Darling of the doomed and drunk And all the bad news that can fit jumps in my ear and does insist That these things always end like this Like this Oh-oh-oh, this Like this Well, we knew there would be trials We knew there would be faults And it was gonna take a while yet To start to see results Now that you're holding up your diary every time we meet Saying, "This may be the single saddest book there'll ever be" Sit down beside me, pick a place and read And I will hear you And I will hear you And on that day you took your turn I sat with loneliness, we learned Hungry as the desert sun Darling of the doomed and drunk And all the bad news that can fit jumps in my ear and does insist That these things always end like this Like this Oh-oh-oh, this Like this