Lend Me Your Ears Lyrics

Lend me your ears or leave them behind

Your formative years were not unlike mine

The smoke and the beers

Prevented your decay and kept you mummified

And never fade away

Dying every night and rising every day

When there was room to forgive

We knew exactly what living should be

When there was time to forget we lived in ignorant bliss in a dream

And now the drunk and the high have turned a half-opened eye

To the salad days

And as old father time

Hangs up on his clothesline he says

Lend me your ears or lay down your lives

The children appeared from husbands and wives

Born with a scream and left just a sigh

Some would think it's sad I say it's not so bad

Some would question why we have to say goodbye

But when I was high as a cloud

I don't know just how loud I was being

I let the dishes burn out I let the cigarettes pile up to the ceiling

Just as the room was spinning then

It pushed a button to reset itself around my bed

Just as I lost all hope I heard what Vincent Van Gough must have said

Lend me your ears I lost one of mine

I've suffered for love and there's no point in that

Lend me your ears 'cause what I mean to say

You won't believe it now it won't help you right away

It couldn't matter less what got us in this mess

Lend me your ears or leave them behind

Your formative years were not unlike mine

The smoke and the beers prevented your decay

And kept you mummified and never fade away

Dying every night and rising every day