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No one wanted to leave their house so we just stayed indoors for days
And we had a few drinks and smoked some pot and thought about all the things we didn't say
You and I, when we were trapped inside, I think we lost something dear
Somewhere in that bitter haze of voices we swallowed 'cause they were sayin' the shit neither one of us wanted to hear

You said "It's really hard to stay standing still when you keep begging me to run
Even though I know that the second I begin to move you'll tell me how much you can't stand my motion.
And you're so quick to make all these promises you never intend to keep
Still, you carry on and make them anyways without giving a shit about how much I or anyone else might bleed."

I was frozen on that couch, just something carved quickly from stone
Trying to determine if I could possibly swing facing the sadness of what we call life alone
If the truth was there then it was buried a million miles beneath the dirt
Beneath the hopes we dreamt of swimming in that lake, long before the things we used to love started to hurt

I said, "I hope you're here and present and aware of the fact that I can't go on
The idea of spending the rest of my life with you makes the years stretch out until they're impossibly long."
So I laced up my shoes, tied my bandana to my head, and made for the door
And left that apartment wishing I could remember the reason I'd excused my presence for.

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from The Captain's Head Goes Live, released June 23, 2016

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