To Live for Longer Slides - Flotation Toy Warning

The art of failure really has no school

There is no handbook on how to be a fool

If it makes any difference to you

I trembled here before you

Always hoped if I listened to you, we’d chase the dark away

I wrote it all in a book of songs

That no one ever sings

I’m sorry I left you nothing more

I was never one for things

Hours

There were hours

So many hours

When I just don’t know where I was

There were better versions of me

I miss them now they’re gone

They had to break

It was my mistake to think they’d always carry on

And when the trembled beast’s upon me

And most of me is gone

I hope you find a way that heals

So you, alone, can carry on

I know it’s raining

But did you have to build an ark?

You go easy now, that’s how religions start

But who will you listen to when the trembled beast comes calling?

Will the ones that I listened to cradle you the same?

I wrote it all in a book of songs

That no one ever sings

I’m sorry I left you nothing more

I was never one for things

Hours

There were hours

So many hours

When I just don’t know where I was

There were better versions of me

I miss them now they’re gone

They had to break

It was my mistake to think they’d always carry on

I stand and point and I distract you

I do it just for fun

But I do the same just to shift the blame

When I can’t control what’s going on

When I get tired a loop within me

Clicks and switches on

And what it says is where I am for days

I see no good in anyone

Can you still see the love that’s hidden

When I slide and cut you down?

'Cause that’s the me I swore I’d never be

The saddest form of hand me down

I try to hide the thirst within me

The damage that it brings

Sometimes I need the way it heals

So I don’t feel a single thing

And when the trembled beast’s upon me

And most of me is gone

I hope you find a way that heals

So you, alone, can carry on