Marrow

<br>The answer came like a shot in the back<br><br>While you were running from your lesson<br><br>Which might explain why years later all you could remember was the terror of the question.<br><br>Plus, you werent listening hard<br><br>You were stockpiling canned goods and making a bomb shelter of our basement.<br><br>And I cant believe you let the moral go by while you were soaking in the product placement.<br><br>And where was your conscience? <br><br>Where was your consciousness? <br><br>And where did you put all those letters that you wrote to yourself but could not address? <br><br>Yeah, Im a good kisser, and youre a fast learner<br><br>And that kind of thing could float us for a pretty long time.<br><br>And then one day, youd realized youve memorized my phone number<br><br>And youll call it and find its a disconnected line.<br><br>Cuz I got tossed out the window of loves el camino<br><br>And I shattered into a shower of sparks on the curb.<br><br>You were smoking me werent you between your yellow fingers<br><br>You just inhaled and exhaled without saying a word.<br><br>Where was your conscience? <br><br>Where was your consciousness? <br><br>And what did you do with all those letters you wrote to yourself but could not address? <br><br>Theres a smorgasbord of unspoken poisons<br><br>The whole childhood of potions that are all bottled up<br><br>And so one by one I am dusting off labels<br><br>I am uncorking bottles and I am filling up cups.<br><br>Go ahead and have a taste of your own medicine.<br><br>Here Ill have a taste of mine<br><br>But first lets toast to the lists that we hold in our fists of the things<br><br>That we promised to do differently next time.<br><br>Cuz the answer came like a shot in the back<br><br>While you ran from your lesson which might explain<br><br>Why years later all you could remember the terror of the question.<br><br>Cause Im not listening to you anymore.<br><br>My head is too sore and my hearts perforated<br><br>And I am mired in the marrow of my &quot;well aint that funny? &quot; bone<br><br>Learning how to be alone and devastated.<br><br>Where was my conscience? <br><br>Where was my consciousness? <br><br>And where do I put all these letters that I wrote to myself but could not address?