Consolation Lyrics

Laughs on the house

Now that i'm not with you

Your new friend laughs

He knows I can't forget you

And what can I say love

Once I would have laughed too

Now I must shake

And turn red for your visit

Where I tend bar

And pretend I'm not defenseless

But damned if I gratify you

With the truth

Cuz though I can't be with you now

My love burns much the same

Like a coal seam fire underground

How long it will go on I can only say

As long as it takes

A fool down in the remnants

Of what he makes

Where foolish pride has led him

But it's a lotta fools

Who don't outlive the lie

A low refrain

Becomes our consolation

That all is change

And all will be forgotten

Down here we're the same

Your triumph and my bungled life

It's true that I have lost your love

But we all lose in the end

I'll wait here where the joke's on us

Where open air can't dare

This infernal love to spread

Where death finally

Will take this identity

You and your new friend

As well