The Graveyard Near The House-The Airborne Toxic Event

[ti:The Graveyard Near The House] [ar:The Airborne Toxic Event] [al:All At Once] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Graveyard Near The House - The Airborne Toxic Event [00:10.06]The other day when we were walking by [00:13.00]The graveyard near the house you asked me [00:15.50]If I thought would ever die [00:17.87] [00:20.11]And if life and love both fade so [00:23.48]Predictably we've made ourselves a kind of predictable lie [00:27.94] [00:30.36]So I pictured us like corpses lying side by side [00:33.92]In pieces in some dark and lonely plot under a bough [00:37.67] [00:39.76]We looked so silly there all decomposed [00:41.52]Half turned to dust in tattered clothes [00:44.52]Though we probably look just as silly now [00:46.95] [00:51.48]Bye bye bye all this dog-eared innocence [00:56.17]I can't pretend that [00:57.79]I can tell you what is going to happen next or how to be [01:02.05] [01:06.39]But you have no idea about me [01:09.27] [01:15.19]Do you [01:16.44] [01:18.82]It left me to wonder if people ever know each other [01:22.25] [01:23.50]Or just stumble around like strangers in the dark [01:26.50] [01:28.31]Because sometimes you seem so strange to me [01:30.75]I must seem strange to you [01:32.75]We're like two actors playing two parts [01:36.06] [01:37.69]Did you memorize your lines [01:39.13]'Cause I did [01:40.32]Here's the part where I get so mad [01:42.82]I tell you that I can't forget the past [01:45.31] [01:47.32]You get so quiet now [01:49.13]And you seem some how like a lost and lonely child [01:52.38]And you just hope that the moment won't last [01:55.69] [01:59.69]Bye bye bye all this dogged innocence [02:04.25]I can't pretend that [02:05.57]I can tell you what is going to happen next or how to be [02:09.77] [02:14.64]But you have no idea about me [02:17.27] [02:19.77]You have no idea about me [02:22.08] [02:26.58]Do you [02:27.27] [02:31.64]Still there's always a way around [02:33.64] [02:36.15]There's something tying our feet to the ground [02:39.14] [02:39.83]A moment passed we hear how it sounds [02:41.69] [02:46.37]And it seems a little less profound [02:48.75] [02:51.19]Like we're all going the same way down [02:54.13] [02:56.13]We're all going the same way down [02:59.06] [03:01.07]I'm just trying to write it all down [03:04.13] [03:08.26]I write songs and you write letters [03:10.69]We are tied like two in tethers [03:13.44]And we talk and read and laugh and sleep at night inbed together [03:17.51] [03:18.07]And you wake in tears sometimes [03:20.13]I can see the thoughts flash across your eyes [03:22.76]They say “Darling will you be kind Will you be a good man and stay behind if I get old ” [03:30.13] [03:33.07]Then the letters all pass through my head [03:35.51]With the words that I was told [03:37.69] [03:39.07]About the fading flesh of life and love [03:41.50]The failures of the bold [03:43.25] [03:45.44]I can list each crippling fear like I'm reading from a will [03:51.19] [03:53.94]And I'll defy every one and love you still [03:56.88]I will carry you with me up every hill [04:02.32] [04:03.32]And if you die before I die [04:06.38]I'll carve your name out of the sky [04:08.88] [04:09.88]I'll fall asleep with your memory and dream of where you lie [04:14.63] [04:16.01]It may be better to move on and to let life just carry on and I may be wrong [04:22.19] [04:25.69]Still I'll try [04:28.51]Because it's better to love whether you win or lose or die [04:33.45] [04:34.76]It's better to love whether you win or lose or die [04:39.63]It's better to love and I will love you until I die