The Good Life

Seven AM and I'm going to bed
Another night spent worrying all alone
The sun's coming up and my eyes are red
Another night waiting for you to come home
Maybe I'm living the good life you left for dead
I'll drink with friends and laugh till dawn
But let’s not dwell on what I said

Loving and being loved seem so far out of reach
It was a long time ago when I was still young
I learned the lessons life had to teach
That there’s no kind of love like the love you lose
And when it comes to luck you make your own
Or people will either use or be used
And there are those who are just abused
But there are the ones who love to live
Because they have all life has to give

Well, my heart’s giving up on all this abuse
And maybe it’s time that yours did too
Remembering the little things that made you laugh
Or the bigger things that made you scream
Whispering in my mouth when you were happy
Both of us just as content as we seemed
Yeah, we were living the good life we left for dead
Maybe we really thought it could last

So if you think it's too easy to be misled
Well, just use your ears and eyes
And say all of your goodbyes
But don't believe everything I said
Or even all the things you see
Darling, please forgive me
And the way I was bred
Now that you’re privy to my lies
You should say all your goodbyes
Because now nothing’s getting in your head

Because in the end here’s how it’ll turn out
We’ll both be looking for something
Two cars in the night with our lights out
Just wanting to put it all right
Needing to know what our lives were about
Well, I remember the night I kissed you
So hard there were tears in your eyes
And they were the color of water,
The eyes of my former lovers
When we thought to ourselves, maybe the good life
Won’t be out of reach tonight

Rearranged (AFB)

I’d gone too long without dreaming of dying again
I lost my life like I lost my mind
Letting it all go, leaving everything behind
This place was meant for living and then moving out
I was sitting in the shadow of an air force base
Thinking of people it may as well have erased

I dreamed I met you again
But no hello like we were old friends
You were a stranger in every sense of the word
Like there was no one like you in the world
Well your body’s the same
And your face hasn’t changed
Maybe you have the same dreams
Deep in your brain

But your heart is new and wild to me,
Untamable and inaccessible
Mysterious and impenetrable
Well that’s when it started to pour
So it was hand in hand into the rain
Wanting to ask you your new name
Flagging taxicabs, running from something
We rode all night to escape our lives
War and peace, love and hate
Isn't it all the same?

We ran for days and days
But we didn't get anywhere
Mile after mile stretched behind us
But in the end nothing changed
Baby, it's been years and years
But nothing was even rearranged

Now it’s waking up to giving up everything
Just so we could find something
Please, just to put your hands on anything
It’s just living like there was no other way
Just knowing you’re dying every day
With every single breath you take
And well you’ve just got to fight and cry
And steal and lie for every scrap of meaning

And it’s thinking about how we spent our final moments
How your last night at home we laughed until dawn
In the face of that sorrow we pretended nothing was wrong
Yeah, covering up all that pain we can hide
Trying to make believe like nothing died
But maybe there’s still a chance we can still get out
Maybe it’s not too late for us to figure out
There’s still you and I and we’re still alive
And there’s still always the night when I
Kissed you so hard there were tears in your eyes