Burning Fences - Noah Gundersen

All things pass with time

Old trends, old friends

Fitting for the month that Michael died

Buried in a stone cold riverbed, where the watershed divides

Oh come colder weather and

Oh come something better please

All things freeze with time

Clear skies, dry eyes

Am I colder than the air in this town

I have been a stone cold riverbed, if still I am alive

But maybe

Someday

I said maybe you’ll forgive me

Because I’ve been a mayday son

I’m withered, weathered by the setting sun of your summer

If I could be anyone

These days I’d be someone different

So I could hold you now

But you slip away like a changing maple leaf

And I try to find any dry land that I can

And for the last time, though I have loved you

You keep slippin' away, slippin' away and I am finished with

All the chaos and the ticking clock

The college life, the bomb that drops

And blows the whole damn thing to bits

And freezing are my fingertips in this cold

In this cold, cold town

We make such different people

Climbing into different beds at night

With both such different feelings

Mine are overwhelming, are yours?

I might be screaming while you’re

Dreaming without any concern

It took so long for me to find

That I can’t try anymore

And if I said I’m sorry

Too many times before it’s 'cause I

Just wanted desperately to make you love me

Darling, if the sun could shine in

Brighter than all your distractions

I would climb into hell

Light myself on fire