Lynn Jackson - Cobwebs Lyrics

You were cursing a blue streak
That's when my mind started to slip
A little neglect to keep everything in place
Words like high-beams on a desolate, small-town street
Life passes away on a tv set

Dramas and sitcoms and lost time that
I know I will regret
We sit here and watch the screen beside us the wallpaper curls

Give me back all those years
Give me back everything that could've been
Give me back all that youth
Give me back all intended to be

I've seen the brilliance, I've seen the f*ck-ups
I've seen all the eyes and the calm and the sweat, I've seen some get through it
I've seen some buckle underneath it

For a moment your eyes will shine
And you will listen to these words of mine build a dream then tear it down to the nothing

Cobwebs on the window, a shadow on your face sunny memories shine in the dust
On a photograph you replaced, that you replaced

Didn't the movies show us how we were supposed to act?
All those Hollywood friends
My friend says, 'love means always having to watch your back'

My chest may explode
And my heart could sink to the ground
I'm not asking for a crowd
Sometimes I can't even make a sound

I'm standing in a doorway
Looking for your shadow
Then the sunlight came along and ruined it all
Sometimes there's no relief for a broken heart

In the end we're just filling up spaces with broken parts
Some walking around with a head on fire
Take something to make you feel a little bit lighter
We've been waiting a long time here
Sometimes with reservation,

Sometimes with unseen fear
When you think you've got it all figured out
You're not even close...

The naysayers, the soothsayers
The nighttime players, the hoodlums and the charlatans,
They're all mixed in with the good ones

There was a small miscalculation
And the wind came crashing in
'Til I realized it was my mistake all along
That I've been filled up from the inside by all these walls

Sometimes the time is still, an hour feels like a year and your mind is your best friend
But your thoughts are something that you fear
All that time spent living in front of someone else's mirror