Everything I've Learned Lyrics

I'd like to teach you everything I've learned from you

But I know you won't be staying here that long

As the silence starts to build a wall around that makes you blue

All the lessons hide themselves inside a song

That plays about as long as the fire between us burned

But never long enough to teach you everything I've learned

I'd like to teach you everything I've learned from you

And all the things you helped me to forget

But I'm running out of time in this childish silly rhyme

And it isn't time to write an ending yet

When the summer sun explodes without answered prayer

And the earth below won't cool though midnight hums

I can turn the words and phrases into love songs in the air

But I'll never wash these bloodstains from my thumbs

Or train myself to recognize just why my feelings turned

Or find the time to teach you everything I've learned

I'd like to teach you everything I've learned from you

And all the things you helped me to forget

But I'm running out of time in this childish silly rhyme

And it isn't time to write an ending yet

I can feel an icy wind outside the altar of my dreams

Eating holes inside the stomach of my thoughts

A sequined stale bouquet of purple flowers drying out

That once were fresh and wild forget me nots

That grew as if to tell us there was something we had earned

But never grew enough to teach you everything I've learned

I'd like to teach you everything I've learned from you

And all the things you helped me to forget

But I'm running out of time in this childish silly rhyme

And it isn't time to write an ending yet

Yeah I'm running out of time in this childish silly rhyme

And it isn't time to write an ending yet