You Left Too Early

When nothing works
You choose the rope and the beam
You came apart at the seams it seems
Life gets a shirk
You meet the dirt
Not sure you'll ever come clean
Your body sways in the throw away phase
Bed sheets stained
With phantom pain
Ghosts unseen
Poke holes in your schemes
Far from their taunts
You escape our little scene

You left too early
The day had just begun
Imagine my surprise
To find a song that won't be sung

You left so early
Was it all too much
Arrived soft spoken
Got away in a rush

Smoke curls from my cigarette
Spirals of my torched regrets
Can't locate the skeleton key
For the doors that were locked to me
Suited cannibals prepare to feed
Feasting on your delicate needs
They tear into the meat of greed
Torn apart by our camaraderie
Over the river, a rainbow appears
To forgive your unwept tears
Today you quit, stopped trying to live
Lay with angels under heaven's rift
I comment on the refraction of love
Release pain instead of a dove
Sunshine lit your terse final fuse
You hung around only to refuse

You throw away magic
Like it's going out of style
Night unfilmed, reluctant cinephile
Break through disdain only to defile
Meteorite blazing for a little while
No prayers at your tomb, in the aisle
Doom and gloom from the womb, bile
Stole a musician's cloak on the funeral pile
Lost the plot, you got lost in the last mile

You left too early
The day had just begun
Imagine my surprise
To find a song that won't be sung

You left so early
Was it all too much
Arrived soft spoken
Got away in a rush