Nice and Blue (Pt. 2) - mewithoutYou

You were a song I couldn’t sing

Caught like a bear by the bees

With its hand in a hive

Who complains of the sting

When I’m lucky I got out alive!

A life at best left half-behind

The taste of the honey

Still sweet on my tongue

And I’d run (Lord knows I’ve tried)

But there’s no place on Earth

I can hide from the wrong I’ve done

Then I saw a mountain and I saw a city

(I was once the wine)

Steadily sinking but suspiciously calm

(I was once the wine)

It wasn’t an end, it wasn’t a beginning

(I was once the wine)

But a ceaseless stumbling on

(And you were the wine glass)

There, strapped like a watch on my wrist

(I was once alive)

That’s finished with gold but can’t tell time

(I was once alive)

Was all or what little pleasure exists

(I was once alive)

Seductively sold and uselessly mine

(When you held me)

Our horse was fast and first from the gate

With the lead of a length at the sound of the gun

And the last of our cash laid down to fate (at 17 to 1)

But by the final stretch in the rear of the pack

That nag limping bad in the back

We reluctantly gave all the money we’d saved

A fifth to the commonwealth and the rest to the track!

Then I saw a forest grow in the city

(I was once the wine)

And a driftwood wall of birdhouse gourds

(I was once the wine)

And I’m still waiting to meet a girl like my mom

(I was once the wine)

(who's closer to my age)

(I was once the wine)

The true light of my eyes is a Pearl

(I was once alive)

Equally emptied to equally shine

(I was once alive)

And all or what little joy in the world

(I was once alive)

Seemed suddenly simple and endlessly mine

(When you held me)

I was once the wine

I was once the wine

I was once the wine

And you were the wineglass

I was once alive

I was once alive

I was once alive

When you held me

But God became the glass

All things left are emptiness

Oh, little girl…

You’re just a little girl

If you look out and see a trace

Of a dark bed was once my face

In the clarity of such grace

Forget all about me