The Graveyard Near the House

The other day when we were walkin' by

The graveyard near the house, you asked me

If I thought

We would ever die

And if life and love both fade so

Predictably, we've made ourselves

A kind of

Predictable lie

And so, I pictured us like corpses

Lying side by side in pieces

In some dark and lonely plot

Under a bough

We looked so silly there, all decomposed

Half turned to dust in tattered clothes

Though we'd probably look

Just as silly now

Bye, bye, bye, bye

Bye-bye, to all this dog-eared innocence

I can't pretend that I

Can tell you

What is going to happen next

Or how to be

But, you have no idea about me

Do you?

And it left me to wonder

If people ever know each other

Or just stumble around like strangers

In the dark

'Cause sometimes you seem so strange to me

I must seem strange to you

We're like two actors

Playing our parts

Did you memorize your lines?

'Cause I did

Here's the part where I get so mad, I

Tell you why I can't forget the past

We get so quiet now and you seem somehow

Like a lost and lonely child, and you just

Hope that the moment

Won't last

Bye, bye, bye, bye

Bye-bye, all this dog-eared innocence

I can't pretend that I

Can tell you

What is going to happen next

Or how to be

But, you have no idea about me

You have no idea about me

Do you?

Still, there's always a way around

There's somethin' tyin' our feet to the ground

A moment passed

We hear how it sounds

Then it seems a little less profound

Like we're all goin' the same way down

Yeah, we're all goin' the same way down

I'm just tryin' to write it all down

'Cause I write songs and you write letters

We are tied like two in tethers, and

We talk and read and laugh

And sleep at night in bed together, and

You wake in tears sometimes

I can see the thoughts flash across your eyes

They say, darlin', will you be kind?

Will you be a good man and stay behind if I get old?

And then the letters all pass through my head

With the words that I was told

About the fading flesh of life and love, the failures of the bold

I could list each crippling fear like I'm reading from a will

And I'll defy every one and love you still

I will carry you with me up every hill

And if you die before I die, I'll carve your name out of the sky

I'll fall asleep with your memory and dream of where you lie

It may be better to move on

And to let life just carry on

And I may be wrong

Still, I'll try

'Cause, it's better to love, whether you win

Or lose, or die

It's better to love, whether you win

Or lose, or die

It's better to love, and I will love you till I die