I'll Be Around

Yes, I'm only a man

Judgements of something ancient

Clocking my time as finished

The same is all replacements

Ignorance is complacency

Why are you purposely fading?

No stand, no sit, no stopping

Ripping through the neon prophecies

Got let off by a ticket stub

My time is fading fast

Through your mouth and out yours

(You never do what you say)

Say what?

(Shine till the sun comes up)

Come down

(You oughta wash your hands and pray)

For what?

(Shaking hands, swapping dirty blood)

Pass it round

(You never do what you say)

Say what?

(Shine till the sun comes up)

For now

(You promise that you'll come around?)

I'll be around

So I fear, but I don't know what it is

So I want, but I pretend I don't need

So here's the pain of the stubbled lover's kiss

I throw my pages all away like shaking wrists

So shake me down

Shake me up (Shake me down, shake me down)

So shake me down

Shake me up (Shake me down, shake me down)

So shake me up

(You never do what you say)

Say what?

(Shine till the sun comes up)

Hey now

(You oughta wash your hands and pray)

For what?

(Shaking hands, swapping dirty blood)

Pass it round

(You never do what you say)

Say what?

(Shine till the sun comes up)

Come down

(You promise that you'll come around?)

I'll be around

I tell me it ain't hard

As I hold my breath thinking why

Tell me to my beating heart

That I know for sure

Better than I can know for sure

What it did

My mistakes bend like payphone metal

I never know just what will come

Some place our hands bind together

River and me children

Longer than a trillion

Get what I am given, forever

(So shake me up)

(You never do what you say)

Say what?

(Shine till the sun comes up)

Come down

(You oughta wash your hands and pray)

For what?

(Shaking hands, swapping dirty blood)

Pass it round

(You never do what you say)

Say what?

(Shine till the sun comes up)

For now

(You promise that you'll come around?)