Lyrics

Before the War

It?s been years and years and years and years and years
But I counted every minute until you
Now a cold wind blows right through the house and past this couch
Is that silence on the phone really you?

Now the days have cut me short, I feel us dying
Remember watching leaves fall from trees before the war

All you do is sit there sending love by semaphore
But I read through it like a first-grade reader?s easy book
I know you try, I know you write, I know you telephone
But is that silence in the bed really you?

Now the years have left me short, I feel us dying
How about we take a walk the way we did before the war

I never meant for us to die?

I?d like to trick you into giving things another chance
But you?ve finally got me figured out, I fear
I?ve got as many hearts as the floor of any slaughterhouse
And you know I keep them to myself

Where the ocean meets the rocks you?ll find me dying
Trying hard to find that shirt I wore before the war
And if we ever meet again after the dying
I kept your letters in a box, painted up before the war