I’ll Be Gone

It was a long hot summer day
We're in the living room watching the light fade away
And you're too tired to read what your cards foretold inside of a yawn
And she sai,d
"The first time you show me your true heart I'll be gone."

The numb ringing after the bell was rung
Playing red light, green light, such timeless fun
There was no way to kickstart any conversation
It's like the beginning of 2001, when she said

I'll be gone
I'll be gone
I'll be gone

The air isn't moving and the women have nothing on their lips
But the kind of breath that you keep for the hospital bed
Pregnant with the timeless drop and the wind
How the air leaches the gold out of everything elusive and stolen

And stolen
I'll be gone
I'll be gone
I'll be gone
I'll be gone
I'll be gone
I'll be gone