I don’t quite remember what the past tastes like, or what I used to like, or what I used to be like but sometimes the air gets tight and it feels like it’s fight or flight and I don’t quite remember if this path is right, but we’ve got to make it back before the break of night Because I don’t want to get caught out in the moonlight, because I remember quite clearly what alone feels like But I know that the past can’t let you let it go and I know that the future holds me tight, holds me tight, holds me tight, tonight! And I will have to find a better to drive out the demons that kick it with me at night And I know they’re mine but they seem to have their own minds And I don’t quite remember who started this fight, this fire-fight keeping us warm tonight, and I will let the flames lick all of my bones dry if they promise that it will be alright, it will be alright But I know that the past is just the bird about your throat And I know that the future holds me tight Someday I hope to find a better me in a better time With habits not vices, with hope, not vanity with reasons behind every line I don’t quite remember what the past tastes like, or what I used to like, or what I used to be like But maybe it’s better that way, to lose the rewind and just hit play cause I don’t quite remember what I wanted to find, what I hoped would be mine, I think what I’ve got is fine And I think that Old Me would feel alright with whatever ending I choose to write Cause I know that past is just a tv show and I know that future holds me tight

When I was in kindergarten my mom made me an awesome Donatello costume out of Styrofoam and felt and I felt like The brains of the operation, operation, be my murder doctor’s patient doctor’s patient, Sherlock Holmes investigation investigation, I don’t want to be a secret agent secret agent, but I’ll the defend the poor folks of this nation When I was in third grade my mom made me an awesome Public Defender costume out of a briefcase and a suit and it suited me, it suited me so well, so well, fake glasses and hair gel, so well, so well so I kept the glasses and belt, and I felt like What can we throw together out of things that we find in the, things that we find in the house There was an age where we’d parade and celebrate the big day, celebrate the big big day Do these things go together, I found a bible and a jacket in my trunk When I was in 18th grade, I made myself an awesome raptor bandito costume Out of newspaper and tape and I spent days Spent days, spent days, fashioning a gun out of tape Spent days, spent days, fashioning a hat out of tape Spent days, spent days, fashioning a steed, velociraptor speed, fashioning a steed, velociraptor speed What I can I put together and hold in place with tape, hold in place with tape What I can I put together and fasten with tape, fasten with tape There was a day when I’ll parade and celebrate any age So well, so well so yell and yell its time to ring doorbells And yell and yell pretend not to be ourselves and I felt like and I felt like The brains of the operation, operation, be my murder doctor’s patient doctor’s patient, Sherlock Holmes investigation investigation, I don’t want to be a secret agent secret agent, but I’ll the defend the poor folks of this nation

Stone’s throw out on the road windshield’s hit, but nobody knows until it spiders, shatters wider Anyway you want it to go it won’t go Down without a fight, trying to do right Get your act together, getting better, but Anyway you want it to go it won’t go, it won’t go Too late to fix it now But you’ll manage somehow Too late to fix it now But you’ll manage somehow Stone’s throw out on your own, surface breaks, ripples unfold Like years or letters or games of checkers Anyway you want it to go it won’t go Down with the ship, even if it’s storms and thunder, you’re going under, but Anyway you want it to go it won’t go, it won’t go Too late to fix it now But you’ll manage somehow Too late to fix it now But you’ll manage somehow Despite all outward appearances, some calloused fists A bent back and a unkempt visage I promise you this, I am not Sisyphus, Not Sisyphus Stones roll back down the road, push it up, never let go You perspire, you’re getting tired, but Anyway you want it to go, you won’t go Down without a fight, gonna do right Got your act together, you’re getting better, but Anyway you want it go, anyway you want it to go Anyway you want it go it won’t go down

Rain covers everything except for the stuff blessed with some coverage, I wonder if I will drift into the gutter one day (oooh, bah bah) Rain covers everything like a big blanket, A big wet, cold blanket like I was at fifteen ’cause I never did anything but stay home on Friday nights Flipping through the channels all on my lonesome ’cause I didn’t have no friends to come over on Friday nights Occasionally I’d write a song and have no one to sing it to One time I wrote a song, and I called up Leatherman And I sang it to him over the speakerphone, it was about a spy, with a lonely life Who watched TV in his Home of the Whopper underwear If you don’t like the weather, then wait a goddamn second ’cause nothing is set in stone, but fossils and bones waiting to become fossils Light shines on everything pointing out all of its flaws Bringing out bright colors like my first time in OZ Oh, the light is to die for, it is an eyesore, like me at 18 Like I was trying to prove a point or pointing out I had nothing to prove to you (bah, bah, bah, oooh) It’s like if I was undesirable and I did it on purpose then when I wasn’t desired at all I could call it a success---I could always wait to get undressed If you don’t like the weather, then wait a goddamn second ’cause nothing is set in stone, but fossils and bones waiting to become fossils Snow covers everything like bubble bath soap, bringing renewal and a new chance at hope waiting to be made into fanciful stuff, like me as a bear cub at 17 I thought that love was a day of the year, I thought my birthday was a seven tiered Cake, but a fake lightness of heart wouldn’t let me feel your parts In the snow (oh no no no noooooo)