The last couple weeks have been, truthfully, pretty shitty.  There’ve been some bright spots (read: The Head and The Heart show? Pretty sure that’s what heaven sounds/feels like), but overall it’s just been a shithole.  So in lieu of actually being original (God forbid), I give you the only words that I know.  Hello, anthem of my high school years. And college years.  And mid-twenties too, apparently.  Hell, let’s just go ahead and assume that this may very well be the anthem of my life. (If nothing else, it’s been the title of my blog for the past…7 years?)

 

What a beautiful piece of heartache
This has all turned out to be
And Lord knows we’ve learned the hard way
All about healthy apathy

I use these words pretty loosely
There’s so much more to life than words.

There is a me you would not recognize, dear
Call it the shadow of myself
And if the music starts before I get there,
Dance without me,
You dance so gracefully
I really think I’ll be ok.
They’ve taken their toll, these latter days

Nothing like sleeping on a bed of nails.
There’s nothing much here but our broken dreams.
Ahh, but baby, if all else fails,
Nothing is ever quite what it seems.
And I’m dying inside to leave you
With more than just cliches.

There is a me you would not recognize, dear.
Call it the shadow of myself.
And if the music starts before I get there,
Dance without me,
You dance so gracefully.
I really think I’ll be ok.
They’ve taken their toll, these latter days.

Tell them it’s real,
Tell them it’s really real.
I just don’t have much left to say.
They’ve taken their toll, these latter days.