Dolphin Hotel

We're making it a habit to say those three words.
I don't think you do.
I'm not sure you ever have.
You lit the match and cried as Rome fell.

Identify yourself within the songs that you create
Writing and rewriting 'til they all sound the same.
The magic to your madness was lost along the way.
Tonight the sheep man will come.

I tried to recall what i used to feel
When your smile held diamonds that no one could steal.
Split by a memory, you no longer share his face.

I watched you disappear and burn to death.

We'll talk about the future but it won't be like before.
No promise of "forever";
That was never any more than the weakest song you've written.
The muses never come when you're smiling.

So fall into your sadness: that nothingness you seek.
It's binding you to pictures and to distant memories.
Romanticize the past but never wonder why
Our film slipped off the reel.

Because nothing lasts forever: no, it won't be like before.
Your eyes are boarded up,
Your heart is like a door
Swinging open for the strangers to validate your pain.
I'd know because i was one.

As time takes everything lighter than steel
The sky will grow dark; the daylight surreal.
Twist that into song and fall in love with an idea.

I know that's the best you can do.
I know that's all you can do for me.
I watched you disappear and burn to death.