Friends in Theory - Tommy Boys

Complaining the way through the week

Odd comments that rain on all parades

Sick and sore from the shots that you take

If I climb to the top of the hill, you’ll likely say

That you wouldn’t hike the same cliff

It’s safe in your room

You’re taking up the excuses I use

To fend blows but open old wounds

Foundation, it’s weak at the root

Pulling the weeds, topic changes

Like when you talk what you can’t prove

Ignore signs, it’s what I’m wanting too

Carnations, gardens in bloom eventually decay

No water to waste

Or I’ll spend the next year walking on embers

That you walk around, safer ground

Straight for the floor

Got lost in conversation

You’re climbing up the stairs, hanging lights

And they shine on all of the paintings on your walls

I’ve never stopped to make sense of them

Blanking on the faces that you never want to think about

If I get up to higher places, drag me down to yours

You bound me up a knot or two, set me on the tracks

But I don’t object to anything

Engines pace, don’t slow down

Well I found a place with no view

No windows, just locks on the rooms

Ignoring haze and fog you always contend

That it’s pure rain or sun

I had no choice but I still made you one

To fictions you compose, I’m not listening too close