Wednesday, March 2, 2011

We Used To Talk (Stranger)

We used to talk
Enough to fill an ocean full of sailors 
who were going to some undiscovered place
And we talked
about a storm that's growing
but we'd survive it knowing 
we'd keep each other safe
Like the waves that wash away the footprints on the shore
We used to talk a lot
but we don't talk much anymore
We used to talk
enough to fill a million books
with page after page of inspirational thought
And we talked
about all the scenarios 
where we could be the heroes
avenging evil plots
It's what we don't expect and what we choose to ignore
We used to talk a lot
but we don't talk much anymore
How long
can these conversations go on
before the inspiration is gone?
Even Atlantis sunk into the ocean floor
We used to talk a lot
but we don't talk much anymore
We used to talk
how in a hundred years
we would still be sitting here
just chattering our bones
But we're not
I'm sitting here in silence 
and though I have tried
it is hard to talk alone...