1999
And I saw you unwind
Your sleeve caught on a wire
Your naked and true
Dancing alone in the shadows
Of the emptiest house
On the emptiest street
Those hours we burned
Like old news on the mantel
What a merry-go-round
Ride back to ninety-nine
We used to be friends
Slinking down to the bottom
Of old bed-stone walls
Held on all summer long
You'd tied a rope to me then said
"You have to let me go"
"You have to let me go"
"You have to let me go"
"You have to let me go"
We used to be friends, circa '99
All the years you spent
Slipping into shadow
From an old dream you wake
One frozen summer day
You'd tied a rope to me then said
"You have to go away"
"You have to go away"
"You have to go away"
"You have to go away"
I guess all I mean to say
Is I know I haven't been
The friend I was back then
But all this time rots out the brain
Empties it, refills it up
Until the ones you'd love
You'd never recognize
If not for a familiar face
A fleeting glance to send
You back against the odds
Of having lost every trace
Of who we were before the earth
Had spun around the sun
Two thousand times
Like it wouldn't once more
Your sleeve caught on a wire
Your naked and true
Dancing alone in the shadows
Of the emptiest house
On the emptiest street
Those hours we burned
Like old news on the mantel
What a merry-go-round
Ride back to ninety-nine
We used to be friends
Slinking down to the bottom
Of old bed-stone walls
Held on all summer long
You'd tied a rope to me then said
"You have to let me go"
"You have to let me go"
"You have to let me go"
"You have to let me go"
We used to be friends, circa '99
All the years you spent
Slipping into shadow
From an old dream you wake
One frozen summer day
You'd tied a rope to me then said
"You have to go away"
"You have to go away"
"You have to go away"
"You have to go away"
I guess all I mean to say
Is I know I haven't been
The friend I was back then
But all this time rots out the brain
Empties it, refills it up
Until the ones you'd love
You'd never recognize
If not for a familiar face
A fleeting glance to send
You back against the odds
Of having lost every trace
Of who we were before the earth
Had spun around the sun
Two thousand times
Like it wouldn't once more
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Writer(s): William Evans
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