Pining

Heart is in a fib Brain's been lying Pining for forever green Foundation needs refining Heart is in a fib Feet are like lightning Striking deep inside the mind To find what's underlying Stars are shining And gleaming brightly For a child's mind That needs rewiring But he's not looking at the sky Instead he shuts his eyelids And plummets down in silence Internalizing violence Because he could heal everybody else But couldn't give the same grace to himself And it snowballs Picking up speed and went AWOL Careening with no sense of meaning or purpose His self-worth is constantly lowballed Made a hasty retreat And turned over the keys Crumpled in the backseat And now the monster's driving Heart is in a fib Brain's been lying Pining for forever green Foundation needs refining Heart is in a fib Feet are like lightning Striking deep inside the mind To find what's underlying Time is flying Many birthdays have gone by He's tried to cut it out But he can't seem to find it So he confides in vices Plastic smiles and crisis Can only keep that up for so long Because the anger's rising Slowly realizing If the monster's driving It's just endless fighting There's got to be a workaround Must have missed something Need to quit punting Time to start trudging My way back home Nearly ended it On a mission trip Irony was lost on me Until I read my script And realized I had abandon it And gave my heart and soul the slip My voice is spoken for My body's packed and shipped And so I Went back to that overpass Saw that little kid, with his legs collapsed Lying still, near the exit ramp I leaned in, he said Hi Zack I didn't recognize him at first But then I saw his shirt It was my old soccer jersey Number eight The words we're doing okay got stuck coming out He said don't worry about that I think I found a way out And he told me Confide in me Breathe some life in me I'm not your enemy I knew that you'd come back for me Confide in me Breathe some life in me I'm not your enemy I knew that you'd come back for me Confide in me Breathe some life in me I'm not your enemy I knew that you'd come back for me Confide in me Breathe some life in me I'm not your enemy I knew that you'd come back for me Heart is in a fib Brain's been lying Pining for forever green Foundation needs refining Heart is in a fib Feet are like lightning Striking deep inside the mind To find what's underlying Heart is in a fib Brain's been lying Pining for forever green Foundation needs refining Heart is in a fib Feet are like lightning Striking deep inside the mind To find what's underlying