The Great Divide

I can't recall the last time that we talked

About anything but hanging with the cops

We got the same red burns on the same side of our hands

But we ain't friends, we're just two kids

The broke skin at the same spot

That I've never seen you take a turn that wide

And I'm smart enough to still care if I try

So I tried to read the thoughts that you weren't told for time to stop

You said get lost and I said nothing for a while

You know I think about you all the time

And my deep misunderstanding of your life

And how bad it must have been for you back then

And how hard it was to keep it all inside

I hope you settle down, I hope you marry rich (Oh)

I hope you're scared of only ordinariness (Oh)

Like creepy thoughts and ghosts that spiders on your skin

And not the soul and what he might do with it

You wished yourself across the great divide

When we drove east-west along the twin city line

I heard nothing about the face in every ballet that you played

While you said to me the singer at your mind

A fool who's scared of hesitations

Yet he only caged the birds he cannot change

And I'm finally aware of how tiny and unfair

It was to stare at headlights when everything was fine

I hope you settle down, I hope you marry rich (Oh)

I hope you're scared of only ordinariness (Oh)

Like creepy thoughts and ghosts that spiders on your skin

And not the soul and what he might do with it

Break into small waves

Did you wish that I could know?

Your fear to some days

I wasn't brave enough to go

I hope you settle down, I hope you marry rich (Oh)

I hope you're scared of only ordinariness (Oh)

Like creepy thoughts and ghosts that spiders on your skin

And not the soul and what he might do with it