Elegy Lyrics

I had to stop calling home, it's the loneliest phone line

A dial tone echoed like the drone of a flatline

There's no happily ever after to cosign

The last gasp of the love we had has now capsized

So lemme tell you where the mark of this lash lies

From the second we decided to slash ties

An open gash carved upon the path of our past lives

I ran the math - far too many moments had passed by

I should've known that without hope we would nose-dive

Too many red flags hanging out on those clotheslines

But through the rose-colored glass, I was so blind

My own eyes closed to my erosion of sunshine

We're once bitten, twice shy of a punchline

A hound that's outfoxed by an eminent vulpine

I guess we're minus a plus sign

A silhouette of smoke billowed out of a blown mind

So if this is the coda we codify

A record spinning out with us alone on our own sides

I'm going down with every melody memorized

Remembering the end as our own elegy notarized

And I suppose how the rhythm juxtaposes

The prose to the heart of the beat when time's frozen

It's slowest in the heat of those vibes and known moments

When thoughts cascade to emotions

Where do you go when your home has eroded?

In this cracked case the facts place our love as the motive

But now we backspace - the entwined and interwoven

Since we dove in the headlong rush, two fools hoping

We're stayin' open and growing to brighter omens

Although every light aglow throws shadows we haven't chosen

And I suppose now we know what we've awoken

But we Don't Speak - leaving No Doubt to what's unspoken

That's how it goes, the flow of the samsara

It's cyclical, from biblical births to sayonaras

We've bared shared scars like crowns and tiaras

In the end it's all love - no trauma could ever mar us

And you can never account for every factor

The premise of the test, every lesson comes after

And now the messaging is "let it go" faster

Close the book on every photographic Polaroid captured

So here's a toast to the closure of the chapter

The chalice overflowing that I'll raise up to the rafters

We champagne supernova'd the reactor

But once upon a moment its glow had us enraptured