The Airborne Toxic Event - The Graveyard Near The House (Bombastic Video)

 The Airborne Toxic Event - The Graveyard Near The House

The other day when we were walking by the graveyard near the house
You asked me if I thought we would ever die
And if life and love would fade, predictably we made ourselves a kind of predictable lie
And so I pictured us like corpses lying side by side in pieces
In a dark and lonely plot under a bough 
We looked so silly there all decomposed half turned to dust in tattered clothes
Though we probably look just as silly now

Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye to all this dogged innocence
I can't pretend that I can tell you what's going to happen next, or how to be
But you have no idea about me, do you?

And it left me to wonder if people ever know each other
Or just stumble around like strangers in the dark
Sometimes you seem so strange to me, I must seem strange to you
We're like two actors in a play, with our two parts
Did you memorize your lines? Cause I did
Cause this part where I get so mad, I tell you I can't forget the past
You get so quiet now, you seem somehow
Like a lost and lonely child and you just hope that the moment won't last

Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye to all this dogged innocence
I can't pretend that I can tell you what's going to happen next, or how to be
But you have no idea bout me
You have no idea about me, do you?


So there's always a way around, there's something tying our feet to the ground
A moment passed, we hear how it sounds
Then it seems a little less profound, like where all going the same way down
Yeah we're all going the same way down
I'm just trying to write it all down

'Cause I write songs and you write letters 
We are tied like two in-tethers 
We talk and read, and laugh, and sleep, at night in bed together 
You wake in tears sometimes; I can see the thoughts flash across your eyes
Darlin' will you be kind, will you be a good man, and stay behind if I get old
And the letters pass though my head with the words that I was told
The fading flesh, life and love, the failures of the bold
I can list each crippling fear like I'm reading from a will

And I'll defy everyone who loves you still
I will carry you with me up every hill 
If you die before I die, I'll carve your name out of the sky
I'll fall asleep with your memory, I'll dream of where you'll lie 
It may be better to move on and let life just carry on
And I may be wrong, still I'll try
It's better to love whether you win, lose or die 
It's better to love whether you win, lose or die 
It's better to love and I will love you till I die