Wait It Out

Where do we go from here?

How do we carry on?

I can't get beyond the questions

Clambering for the scraps

In the shatter of us collapsed

That cuts me with every could-have-been

Pain on pain on play repeating

With the backup, makeshift life in waiting

Everybody says

Time heals everything

But what of the wretched hollow?

The endless in-between?

Are we just going to wait it out?

There's nothing to see here now

Turning the sign around

We're closed to the earth 'til further notice

A stumbling cliched case

Crumpled and puffy faced

And dead in the stare of a thousand miles

All I want, only one, street-level miracle

I'll be an out-in-out, born-again, from none more cynical

Everybody says

That time heals everything

All in the end

What of the wretched hollow?

The endless in-between?

Are we just going to wait it out?

And sit here cold

We will be long gone by then

In lackluster

In dust we layer on old magazines

Fluorescent lighting sets the scene

For all we could and should be being

In the one life that we've got

Aha, aha, oh

Aha, aha, oh

Aah, aah

Aha, aha, oh

Aha, aha, oh

Aah

In the one life that we've got

Everybody says

That time heals everything

Mmh, what of the wretched hollow?

The endless in-between?

Are we just going to wait it out?

We sit here

Just going to wait it out

And sit here cold

Just going to sweat it out

Wait it out