Sleeping with Snails Lyrics

I'm always

Always wishing you well

Your lucky Penny sleeps with the snails

At the bottom of the espalier

Where we fell and I stayed

A copper coin turning blue from the water

And trying harder not to drown in it, again

Can't seem to bury you

Like the rest of them

Can't seem to bury you

Can't seem to bury it

Can't resurrect with the same form

It's not proper decorum

And I know that it's boring

How I drone on and on again and again

I was always too much

And I kept bringing it up

Until I wasn't

I went from saying too much to nothing at all

I went from saying too much to nothing at all

It's lonely

It's lonely as hell

Being stuck on a story you don't want to retell

All the poems and plots I need to expel

All is not swell

I can't go back with the same grace

Banned and barred from your birthplace

First in line for the wrong race

Where there's no way to win

And each attempt idles for days in the dust

I just can't stop being stuck

And you don't want this

I think I'm saying too much about nothing at all

I'm saying too much about nothing at all

From the absolute best to breaking down to this

Can you tell me how we went from

We went from building a bridge

To building this wall

But don't you miss me, honey

No, you've got a pretty young thing on your arm

And all I got was anxious

And now I'm counting backwards

Now I'm counting backwards

Three

Two

One

Our own ways, divergent for now

Your lucky Penny but the lights are all out

At the bottom of the wishing well

Who's in the past now

We went from saying so much to nothing at all

We went from saying so much to nothing at all

From the top of the cliff we stumbled down to this

And I don't get it

So can you make it make sense

How we went from being so much

To nothing at all