The Man I Knew
(专辑: Parts Of Speech - 2013)
By the
time that you told me it was already plain that you'd changed But your conscience was clean and as white as a
line of cocaine My back to the
wall of your bedroom apartment You're talking in circles, got two cigarettes burning And I
couldn't hide how afraid I
was to see you so strange Don't get me wrong, I've got no ill will for you It'd just been so long, I
thought I'd always know you But you're so far gone Up where the
air gets thin... You cut the
kite strings I've seen my name in lights, I've seen my face in papers But my civilian life, I
spent ten good years waiting Waiting for you You charmed the
snake You picked the
card You bent the
spoon A
curved plane, the
shapes change Euclid's made to play the
fool, but I
don't know what that stuff does to you And I
don't know if it's real, but I
spent a
decade in love with you And I
just can't tell if you're here, cause The
man I
knew I
don't think that he can hear me now So dizzy with the
altitude It's just too far Who am I
to tell you to come down? Lucky that my palate still prefers a
legal poison Who am I
to tell you to come down? Sit back and raise a
glass, a
glass to easy choices Who am I, yeah, who am I, yeah who am I
To tell you to come down? The
man I
knew I
don't think that he can hear me now So dizzy with the
altitude It's just too far Who am I
to tell you to come down? Last night you came to kiss me in a
dream and when I
woke What kind of foolishness is this Breathed out a
lungful of your smoke I've seen you at your brightest What a
mind, let it burn Who am I
to pull you down to Earth? Yeah, who am I
to tell you to come down?