Life Worth Missing

As if on cue
They lit a firework
The sky reeled back
And I ran fast
To get to you
I think you knew
Before the war began
What loving to run towards something
Can do to a man
Fall over the edge
Learn to live while falling
Every laugh is a path worth following
When you put it in words
It's comfortingly bland
There's so little left
To understand
When we're strung up hanging
From the knots we've allowed
We call up our angels
To cut us down
"If you could be proud
Of anything you've done
What would it be?"
Then they disappear
And we are up in the clouds
I feel the tension shock
Right through my body
I am wide awake
Shake a laugh from me
I thought one day
I thought I'd find a hole
In my own backyard
I'd never seen before
Follow it down
Underneath that fence
Come back up on the other side
Live another life
Break down the door, it's yours for the taking
I held it back until you stopped asking
My eyes are blurred
The clock is ticking
I'm coming up short in a life worth nothing
I hear women in my head (Coming up short)
With ordinary names (In a life worth nothing)
Ring like magic (I'm coming up short)
Through some malfunction in my brain (In a life worth nothing)
Your hands were warm
Though you came in from the cold
I took one and held it
And suddenly started to shake
Shake!
Shake!
Shake!
Sha-ake!
I feel it break
I feel the weight of anger, pain, and sorrow
Breaking over me
The flags are raised
We [?] with no more [?] and no more [?]
This is destiny
Memories of the best regrets
I play my song in every single rest
Every note of the symphony
Mend the fence with the best of grace
It's pleasantries to the bottom of the page
I'm sorry