Ox-Eye

Of all the words you've said
these were the ones
that could have saved us both
but you said them far too late.
Of all the words you've said
these could have kept the shadows
of my family from the ground on which I'm walking.
And if I'd only been told the truth,
facts based on something that I could touch,
things would be all different now.
Of all the words you've said
these were the ones
that could have saved us both
but you said them far too late.
And if I'd only been told the truth,
facts based on something that I could touch
things would be all different now.
I wouldn't have to lie
as I see truth in their eyes.
And the blocks that I pass
on my way down to see them,
they'd still be the blocks
that we knew when we were kids.
I wouldn't have to lie
when I say I'm just fine.
And I'd still know how to dance
away what was bad
instead of holding on to
the thoughts that stifle.
Now you're bound to a promise
that you don't wish to keep
while I'm held in the ruins
of something that once was a home,
that once was my home.
Now you're bound to a promise
that you don't wish to keep
while I'm held in these ruins.
Just something that I could touch
and I'd still know how to dance.
I'd still know how to dance away what was bad.