The Graveyard Near The House
The Airborne Toxic Event
Letra

The other day, when we were walking by the graveyard near the house
You asked me if I thought we would ever die
And if life and love both fade so predictably
We've made ourselves a kind of predictable life

And so I pictured us like corpses, lying side by side in pieces
In some dark and lonely blood under a bow
We looked so silly there, all decomposed, half turned to dust
In tattered clothes, but we probably look just as silly now

Bye bye bye bye, bye bye to all this dogged innocence
I can't pretend that I can tell you what is going to happen next
Or how to be
But you have no idea about me, do you?

And it left me to wonder if people will ever know each other
By just stumbling around like strangers in the dark
'Cause sometimes you seem so strange to me
I must seem strange to you
We're like two actors playing our parts
Did you memorize your lines?
'Cause I did. Here's the part where I get so mad
I tell you I can't forget the past
You get so quiet now, and you seem, somehow
Like a lost and lonely child
And you just hope that the moment won't last

Bye bye bye bye, bye bye to all this dogged innocence
I can't pretend that I can tell you what is going to happen next
Or how to be
But you have no idea about me
You have no idea about me, do you?

So there's always a way around
There's something tying our feet to the ground
A moment passed, we hate how it sounds

And it seems a little less profound
Like we're all going the same way down
Yeah we're all going the same way down
I'm just trying to write it all down

'Cause I write songs, and you write letters
We are tied like two, in tethers
And we talk and read, and laugh and sleep, at night in bed, together
And you wake in tears sometimes
I can see the thoughts flash across your eyes
They say "Darling, will you be kind?
Will you be a good man, and stay behind if I get old? "

And then the letters all pass through my head
With the words that I was told
About the fading flesh of life and love, the failures of the bold
I can list each crippling fear like I'm reading from a will

And I'll defy everyone and love you still
I will carry you with me up every hill
And if you die before I die, I'll carve your name out of the sky
I'll fall asleep with your memory and dream of where you lie

It may be better to move on, and to let life just carry on
And I may be wrong

But still, I'll try

'Cause it's better to love whether you win or lose or die
Yeah, It's better to love whether you win or lose or die
It's better to love, and I will love you 'til I die