Elizabeth Lyrics

White picket fences

Broken and battered

Laying on the ground like they're signaling the rapture

Last country farmstand closed

The cows won't graze in parking lots

Put them out to pasture

That disappointment in your eyes, is like a beacon of disaster

Like you're the harbinger of change, and I remain here cast in plaster

That letter gathering up dust inside the drawer there by the bed

Leave it unread

Leave it unread

These four white walls are closing in, and I'm hanging on, but by a thread

All in my head

All in my head

You said

Now I can't look at photographs of us, no

Old videos, they all fade to black, I just go

Home again, in the end

Everything, is only what it was, oh

Dated dreams, memories

They just seem, to only give me pause, so

I sit by the window, feel the warm air from my breath

Knowing you're not coming back here it scares me to death

Elizabeth

Elizabeth

Boarded up windows

Covering the cracks up

Letting in the light like a Baptist revival

Transistor radio

Playing all the classics

Trying to save a soul that is begging for survival

That number says it's disconnected, still I try, it's your reprisal

Should I just stand here at the gate, dear should I wait for your arrival?

That letter gathering up dust inside the drawer there by the bed

Leave it unread

Leave it unread

These four white walls are closing in, and I'm hanging on, but by a thread

All in my head

All in my head

You said

I'm healed, I'm healed, I'm healed, I'm healed

I'm healed, I'm healed, I'm healed, I'm healed, I'm healing

It's real, it's real, it's real, it's real

It's real, it's real, it's real, and I'm unreeling

Now I can't look at photographs, of us, no

Old videos, they all fade to black, I just go

Home again, in the end

Everything, is only what it was, oh

Dated dreams, memories

They just seem, to only give me pause, so

I sit by the window, feel the warm air from my breath

Knowing you're not coming back here it scares me to death

Elizabeth

Elizabeth