Time Will Tell

I've got blood all over my hands, in my eyes, on the strings

It's pouring out all over my favorite things

My guilty heart is beating faster, every time I try to sing

It seizes up and my lungs begin to sting

Only time will tell

Is it written all over my face? Should I even feel ashamed?

Or is it that early thirties thing, where some guys just go insane?

And then the doctors give us lithium, but we're never quite the same

Do we retreat to younger years to stop the pain?

Only time will tell

You say there's not a god?

Goddamnit I could use a little faith to keep from crawling out of my skin

I think it's adding up

Staying up blowing tombstone powder with the broken hearted liars again

I think I've had enough

All my records feel like yearbook pictures, there's fondness but I can't remember where I've been

So I'm sharpening my pen, shooting the ink into my skin

Baby here's where we begin