You were smoking me weren't you? Between your yellow fingers
Where was your conscience?
'Cause the answer came like a shot in the back
That you wrote to yourself but could not address?
(Well ain't that)
Where was your consciousness?
'Cause I got tossed out the window of love's El Camino
So go ahead and have a taste of your own medicine
And that kinda thing could float us for a pretty long time
Was the terror of the question, plus, you weren't listening
You were stockpiling canned goods
Which might explain why years later all you could remember
That you wrote to yourself but could not address?
And where did you put all those letters
Which might explain why years later all you could remember
A whole childhood of potions that are all bottled up
I am uncorking bottles and filling up cups
Where was your conscience?
And where did you put all those letters
And I'm mired in the marrow of my
Where was my conscience?
My head is too sore and my heart's perforated
Of the things that we promise to do differently next time
And I can't believe you let the moral go by
There's a smorgasbord of unspoken poisons
Where was my consciousness?
You just inhaled and exhaled without saying a word
Making a bomb shelter of our basement
I'm a good kisser and you're a fast learner
While you were soaking in the product placement
Funny bone learning how to be alone and devastated
And I'll have a taste of mine but first let's toast to the lists
That we hold in our fists
And what do I do with all these letters
And I shattered into a shower of sparks on the curb
Then one day you'd realize you've memorized my phone number
Was the terror of the question, plus I'm not listening to you anymore
Where was your consciousness?
While you were running from your lesson
And so one by one I am dusting off labels
And you'll call it and find it's a disconnected line
