Palindrome

Lift the top, it’s got a few more miles
Let it sit and smoke
Tie a ring of string on your finger to remind
that it’s still broke
This time it’s not a joke

Then fall asleep and dream of a time
we're just kids in a room
In a permanent state of bliss no need to worry
Good news is coming soon
There's no impending doom

Every time feels like the first time
Bad bad memory
Every line sounds like the first line
Bad bad bad memory

20 0 9, I was in a different life
Studying the words people say
Their good lessons, repeating confessions
They must have slipped away
Cuz I keep making their mistakes

Oooh, my love
Oooh, my love
Don’t go, don’t go, it don’t, don’t go away

It’s been a while now
to tell the truth
I think the masks we’re wearing
Have become glued

Starting to forget what’s
inside of me and you

When I am high above it all
I see right through
When the light is right in the morning
Orange overtakes the blue

That’s when I see we’re this
couple of stubborn kids
who are refusing to give

Some say it looks easy for us
but I say they're fools
It looks like happiness
and this in tune
to the same show, different room

Some nights when I hear you singing
It'll change the mood
Wooden floorboards creaking
rhythm with you

I’d take it as a sign
The spark is still alive

And some nights a reflection can trigger
a kind memory
It’ll stay alive for a moment
but then slips away from me

I know I wouldn’t regret
If I could reset
all the ones that I can't forget

I admit it’s counterfeit
I am the great pretender
You only see what I want you to see
Return the rest to sender

I use my two
cents as calculations
to gain influence
over a situation

Cuz I’m out of mind
out of line from too
many times bruised
from the truth

I hit the ground swinging
Could almost see the wind whip through the crowd
Back in the beginning
I had a chance to burn the whole place down

But now I’m out of mind
out of sight, in true
fashion form and groove
I’m old news
Yet I’m out of mind
out of line into
Scattered bits of blue
Oh oh oh

Yeah I’m out of mind
out of line from too
many times through
the same old groove
'till it wore right through

I’ve been searching under
rocks and stones, been looking for
some clue or another
bit of proof that I wasn't just here before

I thought I’d made it
but now It seems the beginning is just like the end
And I can’t change it
Everything I learn, I just unlearn again

Spend a lifetime
spend a lifetime
spend a lifetime waiting
Forever rising
forever dying
Palindrome

I’m in a constant echo
of dark to light, then back to dark again
And all I want is to let go
but I swear that where it ends is right around the bend

Sometimes breathing in is all I can take
Sometimes I’ll just stare at the clock and wait
And sometimes I can’t seem to treat
the frightening speed of my own heartbeat