Hounds

I sit and I wait

Like a loyal dog, I'd be here anyway

My words excavate

Age-old feelings, boring, fleeting, all the same

Shadowed whispers shake the ground beneath

And fall on ears who've grown numb to everything

(Like me!)

Don't always wanna be

Drawing lines in the street

It's getting embarrassing

Being the one to piss and moan

Over your dial tone

Like a loyal dog, I sit

Sit and wait for this

To break, to break, to break, to break

I admit, I'm full of shit

'Cause I can't wait for this

To fall so I can sing out its mistakes

So inadequate

That our story stopped and stalled; start it again

I'll extend my hand

Once these tears have shed

And when I fully understand

The value of an ear that is open

Drowning my inhibitions

In a broken bottle rather than my friends

Like a loyal dog, I sit

Sit and wait for this

To break, to break, to break, to break

I admit, I'm full of shit

'Cause I can't wait for this

To fall so I can sing out its mistakes

I just can't escape

All these weathered words; they tend to complicate

Violent winds shape my vocabulary to celebrate a bastard's embrace

Like a loyal dog, I sit

Sit and wait for this

To break, to break, to break, to break

I admit, I'm full of shit

'Cause I can't wait for this

To fall so I can sing out its mistakes