A Room Somewhere

Thumbin' through these shoeboxed letters and photographs

Knowing it's too late to cash in these rainchecks on expired passion

So I sit right here

And I bruise myself on souvenirs

Wonderin' if this junk I save

Will follow me to my grave

Or to a room somewhere

Full of all the things I'd ever lost

All the things that I've forgotten

Every venture misbegotten

That cannot be redeemed

All my broken dreams

And you

Thinkin' back on moments I shrugged aside

All the days I let slip past as if I could flip the hourglass

There's a castle in the air

Fallen into disrepair

An iron will that's gone to rust

Neglected and collecting dust

In a room somewhere

Full of all the things I'd ever lost

All the things that I've forgotten

Every venture misbegotten

That cannot be redeemed

All my broken dreams

And you

All the knickknack, bric a brac, and odds and ends

A stopwatch, a spyglass, a jackknife, a backstage pass

My sense of equilibrium

All the arguments I thought I'd won

Are hanging side by side

Near the worn-out coats and alibis

In a room somewhere

Full of all the things I'd ever lost

All the things that I've forgotten

Every venture misbegotten

That cannot be redeemed

All my broken dreams

And you