Cobalt from Telling by Friend of My Youth
Tracklist
| 9. | Cobalt | 3:11 |
Lyrics
In ’68, you were the fastest kid in class. You left them gasping in your tracks, took them to state. You’d move away, grow into something out of nothing, marry late. Your mother one day wouldn’t know you in some white fluorescent place.
It’s like a dream from which you can’t remember waking. The shade you cast there will not let you go. It seems impossible sometimes, I know.
Your heart gives way. Sinew and muscle going soft—your body’s telling you what mine could not. But you’ll be okay. You’ll live the life that you are used to; I’ll decide which one of us is gonna pay.
You speak between the lines, like you’ve been keeping something secret all this time. And if we’re not naming names then you can call me what you want to, but you don’t know mine. It’s sad to say, it’s the way it is, if we were looking for an answer in all of this. Sometimes it ends and we just forget.
But the things we’ve done cannot hang motionless forever. The hand that held you may now cast you down. Some calls will not die out unanswered.
See you around sometimes, I guess. I have to believe it’s for myself I’m letting go. If that’s the last I say, you’ll know when death takes you.
