Blanket and Crib

Safe, safe, enjoy your time feeling so safe
And treasure that smile on your face, okay?
'Cause time will see that it's replaced in a while
So go on and smile, smile, handshakes all around, that's your style
And no one would call it denial, for you're
Not even sure what's in store, though it's more

Than you'll be able to take standing up straight, and it won't be okay
And you won't be somebody who it's just happening to
It's a trap that you, and only you

Have laid, laid with a towel up over your face
In your armchair, just lying in wait, waiting
Forces were gathering outside your door
They sharpened their knives and smiled with no smiles in their eyes
A little bit larger in size
And a little bit hungrier for that tiny prize

And my mother, she said, "Son, remember this, no matter what someone did
That they once were just a kid at breast and in bib, in blanket and crib
So just reach inside yourself and find that part that still needs help
Find that part in someone else, and you'll do good" so I thought that I would

So hey, hey, I love you, it goes without saying
I would give you the world on a tray
Though they're already tracing a line across your throat
Far too late in the game, you'll find that you have been betrayed
Propped up and pushed into your place
I could claim that it all would go great, but the reason I came

Is to say that it won't
You should know that it won't
You should know that it won't
You should know that it won't
And so, Phillip, let go