Peeling off, with that crumbling skin of yours,
Layered reminiscences of your wildest years
To match with those things that have expired -
Chocolate, old coins, youth, desire -
And decorate the empty spaces of your middle life.
And then revel again in that kiss you can't describe
One flashback away from the best days of your life
Turn on the radio, a song you no longer recognize
Last call for memories tonight
So take these chords and the meanings of today
Like we buy the brand new way to waste our time.
And if it's just glowing neon lights
And feelings we forgot to hide,
Then let'em be the accidents that define you and me.
Oh, let's go away, just pretend we still have time
To look for the dreams we could never really find
'cause once we are ready to become the imperfections we admire
I think we'll be happy for a while
So bury the pride in your secrets,
The silence you've witnessed
With slow motion eyes,
The soft laze of your childhood holidays,
Your old lucky number,
The confessions you can not reclaim,
The names of the corpses in history,
The true things you've said to me as if they were lies.
But grab your mistakes and a frequency to ride
And swim out the weight of the years that come in tides
'cause if we turn off the radio we'll come to see we have failed to realize
How there is no melody in life.