Someone Said

Someone said that it’d all go by
I smiled it off and I closed my eyes
And I’m still living in the present time

Until someone says that it hurts a lot
I’ll keep em pinned and I’ll let go not
I’ll wear my belt with all my pride
I’m a victor chimp of a cage fight
And I know your knocked out somewhere on the other side

So if I die I’ll turn to light
Illuminate you through the nights
Where in your bed you coil yourself
And you’re laughing at jokes
On the phone with someone else
And I don’t care if I’m forgotten this time
I don’t care if I’m forgotten just wait until I die

I thought someone said that they’d meet me here
And I’m waiting still for her to appear
So I fell for it, the oldest trick
To take account a skeleton
I guess I’ll keep my pen
But what good’s a song
If it don’t mean shit to anyone?
Then come the eyes of “are you alright?”
And you ask me this but you know I’m not tonight
Cause somewhere’s growth I know it’s near
(and I’m still waiting for her to appear)
But it’s not here

Then comes the shame
Oh it’s something else
That same old shame that makes me hate myself
And I know talk is cheap
When you beg your lord
Oh yeah well sometimes talk is all I can afford
Like when you fell for it the oldest trick
Saying “I’m only human”
And I guess I’ll keep my pen
But what good is a song
If it don’t make me into anyone
If it don’t make me a better person
A song can’t make you a better person
And my songs won’t make me a better person

And if someone said
They saw in my soul
I’d laugh or cry
I still don’t know