Nothing Can Change - Sharpless

SHARPLESS:

We can try to move away

Burn our hair off change our names

Stare at beer and swallow light

Touch each other every night

But as my shadow leaves

The empty space left in between

The shallow ache of what had been

And the loneliness that I have seen

Our suitcase packed we’ve had enough

Of trying to get mixed up with that stuff

We’re ready to change and to grow up

Throw out the games in all the houses

Where we slept over

BELLOWS & ESKIMEAUX:

(night after night)

SHARPLESS:

Where we grew older

BELLOWS & ESKIMEAUX:

(fight after fight)

SHARPLESS:

And our lives gave way

To the things that we say

Like we’re stuck inside a play

But as we close the door

Suddenly we wanted more

Just to be seventeen again

And never say goodbye to all our friends

FREEZE FRAME:

Freeze frame back on this shit

With another feat

But this is not a repeat

I keep it moving like a track meet

While my boy jack is trapped in the way way back seat

Roll through the slope in a '94 taurus

The world at large safely ignores us

But lately ruby red eyesight is driving my hindsight crazy

Stuck in the maze of my memories

With former lives and the lies I tell as enemies

Who all signify that I can’t deny all my contrived anxieties

Fuck them, I’m back on the grind

Progress is the quest and I’m making good time

Pain is the past escaping from the mind

If you want to grow up leave it behind

MONTANA:

Nothing can change if it’s alright

And you’ll never grow if you feel fine

JACK:

Can we try again if we go back then?

THE EPOCH:

It doesn’t really matter at all

Is the answer to the hardest question

Waiting for the apple to fall

It’s not why it falls but the fact that it falls at all

JACK:

Nothing can change