Bookbound

He pulls the book down from the top of the high
And he opens to pages that paint him the sky
A swirling mass of thoughts after dark
"This is not what I asked for"
These words leave a mark
And they imprint the pages that were once for just art
And these words, they leave cages on a broken heart
He sighs and he slides it back on the shelf
Off to find the one binding that fits to himself, but

You can't change a story
You don't understand
And words can't be buried
Once they leave the land
It's been read and it's full of the things you wish you said
It's been kept and I've wept over things you never meant

He opens his eyes and sees lies upon lines
On the spine of a broken down story
He'll just shake his head and wish he went to bed
And not read the whole truth about worry
The scenes clutch his mind and he'll turn side to side
Trying to find that broken down book
But then he'll remember, way back in December
That lessons were all that he took, and that

You can't change a story
You don't understand
And words can't be buried
Once they leave the land
It's been read and it's full of the things you wish you said
It's been kept and I've wept over things you never meant

"I'm meant to be heard"
The book starts to cry
"Not meant to be open to only the sky
I once told great travels of pirates at sea
But now there's nobody that bothers to read
And you'll fill up my pages with all of your cares
And then you forget that there's words written here
Not meant to be covered, or shuttered away
But to teach, let me reach you
In my own special way, that

You can't change a story
You don't understand
And words can't be buried
Once they leave the land
It's been read and it's full of the things you wish you said
It's been read and it's full of the things you wish you said
It's been kept and I've wept over things you never meant"

But you can't change a story
And these words can't be buried
It's been kept and I've wept over things I never meant