Oh, What a Shame Lyrics

Life's just a paragraph

That I know I'll keep re-reading until it sticks

But I'm nodding off

I've been on the brink for hours

You're just a dial tone

But you'll never catch me clawing through the

Dirt and wires to get back to you

You'll sing

Oh, what a shame it is

Oh, what a shame he was

But you'll think

Oh, the day those skeletons fell from the closet

Was the day that my mind changed

So when I'm gone and all you have are things that I forgot

To have shoved into the pockets of the only suit I've got

I hope the good outweighs the bad and, everyone, if not

Then give me more than just six feet and let me rot

You're always asking if I'm alright

I swear up and down that I'm fine

I'm not sure what I have to gain from such a bold-faced, blatant lie

This room is cold and bleak but I have so many oaths to keep

And only seconds before I sleep

Only seconds before I sleep

We make and pledge love to these bones we leave behind

You grasp for drugs or love or whatever fix you can find

We make these promises to people we have been

And I promise you that I've been there

But that I'll never understand

We need what we need and the heart wants what it wants

But I beg of you and of myself in equal parts

To leave behind something for someone

Anything, anything at all

So when I'm gone and all you have are things that I forgot

To have shoved into the pockets of the only suit I've got

I hope the good outweighs the bad and, everyone, if not

Then give me more than just six feet and let me rot

Just let me rot

Let me fucking rot