Rung Cold

There's magic in reaching

In grasping but not understanding

Everything you were doing

You wrote like a lunatic

Your 3's and your E's were looking runic

And now there's a fog every morning

But there's a mountain right behind it

You were verified, you were deep

You knew everything was embarrassing and cheap

There were political considerations

And rumored affiliations

You walked the tightrope of speaking without saying anything

You traded a witch for the devil in all the frenzy

In an ocean of strip malls for a country

Everybody knows

The modern world is just so, so wrong

But I'm just grateful for the screen time

Just a little bit of me time

Overstimulated and rang to a daze

Rung cold at the end of every day

You think you're free, you can't walk away

Yeah, you think you're free, you can never walk away

All those giant mechanical windmills

Are spinning around tonight in the dark still

You OD'd on the cappuccins

All of a sudden, the sun's out again

Every time the phone rings, I shake

Claustrophobic in a wide open space

Bubbled tint and weaponized fences

Shivered and bell rung, I came to my senses

The TV with Czech news on in a bank by a cattle ranch

Hayseed ran provincial branch

There was a grown man in a paper crown

There's a gas station by the castle now

There's a break, a break in your heart

There's a break, a break in your heart

If your heart ain't in it

You gotta get just out of if it

Belly down in the mud at dawn

Every day, you ring your hands raw

You drudge through it all somehow

You look dead when you sleep now

Stability changed your perspective

You're meaner now, no longer introspective

I've got a picture of you in an O's hat

On your birthday on the Chesapeake bay

Break in your heart, there's a break, a break in your heart

If you can't get along with it

You gotta just get on with it