Hollow Years

Beatniks, bodybags in my way It's a death that's worse than fate some say My love, my clothes in disarray But I'm building up to a slow decay They're back-slapping gun-toting looking hard Comparing the colors of their credit cards Come from all around to sell the trash they've bought They wanna stop your world 'cause they're not getting off In a spaghetti Western I'm on the sauce Accepting the place I'm put Blast around the bend in a blaze of light Only to shoot myself in the foot When they say turn around But don't look back now Speak your heart till someone hears Grab the hand that'll never feel Don't wanna waste my time in these Hollow years It's a long time gone though I reminisce Fifteen years on a smile and a kiss And I'll spit in the face of reality When your eyes light up inside of me Now the doorknobs turn too easily The carpets come too clean Promises feel like polyester Lies like velveteen When they say turn around But don't look back now Speak your heart till someone hears Grab the hand that'll never feel Don't wanna waste my time in these Hollow years Take me to the hospital I've been dead for far too long The truth will out and let us in In time we will defeat the din Together or alone I guess This memory of you I'll bless I'll be falling to the ceiling Jumping to the floor Kneeling to the neon But always wanting more When they say turn around But don't look back now Speak your heart till someone hears Grab the hand that'll never feel Don't wanna waste my time in these Hollow years Don't look back now Grab the hand that'll never feel Don't wanna waste my time