With the weight of the skies

Like a word to the wise

And the thought that preyed.

With the road rising up

And the fog in my cup

As we cut to fade.

Go from ten down to nought

All the things that we bought

All the plans we made.

Oh man will you stop

Talking, offering it up

So sweetly

It just ain't yours to give

Less you own it completely.

Feel it sharp in my breast

Coming over the crest

Like the joys of spring.

Sense the one with no name

Moving just out of frame

On a gauzy wing.

Like a smile as it cracked

Or a face in the act

Of remembering.

Oh man will you stop

Talking, offering it up

So sweetly

It just ain't yours to give

Less you own it completely.

I wouldn't know

I wouldn't.

Hold the truth like a stone

Of the tree that was grown

From a tiny stem.

As the note finds its mark

Swallowed up by the arc

Of a darkened limb.

It ain't nobody's fault

That it's sere and it's salt

Deep water swim.

Oh man will you stop

Talking, offering it up

So sweetly

It just ain't yours to give

Less you own it completely.

I wouldn't know

I wouldn't.

I wouldn't know

I wouldn't.