Someone to Lose

You were just a lost mad hatter
Drunk with your dreams
I turned up to tell you
But you didn't believe

And now your party's
Come apart at the seams
And I've gotta leave
And I've gotta leave

We read the writing on the wall
Behind our backs they said
The ax had got to fall

Now you've got someone to lose
I wish I'd told you then
Someone to lose
Someone to lose again

You danced into stardust
And nobody could see
A possible beginning
Or a terminal end
They mumbled and they grumbled
And they talked about me
They weren't my friends
They were not my friends

They never gave us a chance
Just two more poets who were
Glued to a doomed romance

Now you've got someone to lose
I wish I'd told you then
Someone to lose
Someone to lose again

Hold me fast
Push me past
Where I belong
Hold me still
Then rob my will
And steal the song

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Grab onto the ladder
Cause you're falling too fast
You tried to ignore me
But you didn't succeed
I said let's go somewhere
Reality lasts
You followed my lead
You followed my lead

The panicked sycophantics
And their egoist ways

Whisper their venom
And then rollback their eyes
I think we're something that
You might want to save
They just despise
Layered in lies

Before this much-to-do should end
unless we find the time
It'll never be found again

Now you've got someone to lose
I wish I'd told you then
Someone to lose
Someone to lose again

Take another look at what you've done
You don't know what you've got until it's gone
Yesterday died with the setting sun
You don't know what you've got until it's gone

It's gone yeah
It's gone yeah yeah yeah