Criminal Career Lyrics

This thing I chose

It did not choose me

These things I do

So dispassionately

Streets I walk

Eyes straight ahead

I sleep just fine

Where I make my bed

But last night I dreamed

That I could not dream

Lost all the words

For the simplest things

Faces jumbled

Eyes in the place of mouths

Cold was hot

North was south

But life's veil

Is so sheer

The hurt in your eyes

Is so clear

The only thing

That kept you near 

These years

Was my