Everlasting

Being honest just got you in trouble

So your mind is liquor and rubble

And in all of your lonely spaces

Sits attractive, irrational thinking

Like why can't you just get up, get out

Leave your wife and your kid and your house

Stamp the fire and start one anew

Like the darkness that's growing in you?

Leave the age on your face, the dog on the couch

Leave the pain in your knee, the teeth in your mouth

Leave the yells in the halls, the paint on the walls, and start living?

Golly, boy, you're such a fool

Don't you know we count on you?

Grit your teeth and make us proud

Fake it when you don't know how

Is your brain singing songs to itself?

Are the miles calling for help?

Do your words taste real when they're belted?

Does your mind feel good when it's melted?

We're all here when you are not present

We're all here when you're out and irreverent

We're all here when you're lost to the static

When you act as if you're made for acting

We're all here when the shame pokes the back of your frame

We're all here when you're drunk, and you still won't abstain

We're all here when you treat your life like life everlasting

Golly, boy, you're such a fool

Don't you know we count on you?

Grit your teeth and make us proud

Don't act like you don't know how