Sparklers

Bottle rockets and smoke bombs lying dead on the sidewalk

Are black marks on the concrete now but they were beautiful last night

A picture of our life

Can we make this what it was

Everything is right, Everything is wrong

Sparklers only burn for so long

Tightrope walking balancing on a thin telephone line

The wind blows and you want to call it off, the cars below keep going by

And now you’re getting tired

Careful you’re gonna fall

Everything is right, Everything is wrong

Sparklers only burn for so long

I’m a pendulum that swings

Trapped in the disappearing

Of a setting sun, the moonlight at dawn

A book of matches burning in its own reflection

Everything is right, Everything is wrong

Letting go is the best way to hold on

So watch the light dance in the dark until it’s gone

Sparklers only burn for so long