And never trust a heart that's so bent, it can’t break
If you can’t understand something, then it’s best to be afraid

And when it does, you will know what to do"
From the panicked paradox of day to day
Just something quaint, a couple ships in the night
Now the sky is a torn up denim and the clouds just splattered paint
To tell them all that I made a mistake
Intersecting circles, she could hang with anyone
So I laid some nights beside her in a bed made for a queen
Gave me anything I wanted, oh, the generosity
But when conducting business, she would lie about where she’s from
It’s a room I’m renovating, it’s a name I got to change

If I get out of California, I’m going back to my home state
And I keep looking for that blindfold faith, lighting candles to a cynical saint

Without even knowing, I guess I took up her advice

I learned to listen, felt like I was back at school
I had to change the combination to the safe
She said I kissed her different, that all the men her age were mean
Painted her front door, it seemed a suitable goodbye
Hide it all behind a wall, let people wait
Saying, "Life is how it is, not how it was"
To think of them, all alone in the dark
I made a new cast of the death mask that's gonna cover my face
So if I ever got too hungry for a suitcase or guitar
And they keep moving at a glacial pace, turning circles in a memory maze
The whole world, it loves you if you are a chic chameleon
It’s not that often but I think of her sometimes
She’d talk forever about the phases of the moon
You can go right out your mind trying to escape

Who wants the last laugh at the fly trapped in the windowsill tape
I took all that I could, it was free
Saying, "Everything's a cycle, you’ve got to let it come to you