Withdrawn Lyrics by Greg Freeman
All that happiness
Is now scraping out my cells
Like a brick thrown in the dryer
Or rats thrown in a well
Like a movie, I picked my jaw up
A song across the city sidewalk
Led into where your love lives
Falling through the ladder of your ribs
Your ribs
All now the silence is
Making you sick
From the moment you woke up
You already want to quit
Inner lives lived in narration
The battlefields of our conversations
The things that stay once the memories fade
What drove us apart now leaves me so afraid
I won’t ask you again
How your garden’s flowering
I won’t spaniel you around
I won’t ask you anything
With the slowness of
Two stone doors opening
My stupid walls –
Never disclosing
Our stubbornness
Our lack of choosing
Has got my molecules bruising
And now the world itself collapses
As I oscillate between its axis
And how the ceiling fan blades start to blur
My heart shakes and then runs backwards
Inner lives lived in narration
The battlefields of our conversations
What remains once love has gone
What drove us apart now leaves me so withdrawn
So withdrawn
