lyrics
Why’d I ever feel the need
to shelve my ideals and my beliefs
for company so undeserving,
leeches who were so unnerving?
Puppets hanging by a thread,
vacant eyes and sunken heads,
tightwalking the social ledge,
always keeping me on edge.
On the corner of Cross Road and Memory Lane,
friends who left as soon as they came.
Familiar faces, forgotten names,
now just ghosts to those they betrayed
With another day, comes another end
Another farewell to another friend
What was it that I was thinking staying
aboard this friendship while it was sinking?
Time has come to abandon ship,
it can’t take another hit.
I’d rather drown in my own terms
than try to survive hanging on to yours.
On the corner of Cross Road and Memory Lane,
wondering which one of us is to blame,
which one doused the flickering flame,
and caused everything we had to fade.
Now I constantly wonder why
I ever felt it was alright
to compromise, sympathize,
justify, and rationalize
their bigotry, misogyny
as failed attempts at comedy,
knowing full well it was clearly
their macho insecurity
On the corner of Cross Road and Memory Lane,
I'm desperately hoping for some change,
awaiting the arrival of the rain
to come and wash away all of the shame.
With another day, comes another end
Another farewell to another friend
What was it that I was thinking staying
aboard this friendship while it was sinking?
Time has come to abandon ship,
It can’t take another hit.
I’d rather drown in my own terms
than try to survive hanging on to yours.
On the corner of Cross Road and Memory Lane,
showing nothing but disdain.
I stayed ‘til the bitter end
and I remain the bitter friend.
credits
from
Act I,
released November 19, 2011
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