You can fake it for a while,
Bite your tongue and smile,
Like every mother does an ugly child.
But the stars are leaking out,
Like spittle from a cloud,
Amassed resentment counting ounce and pound.

You´re entertaining any doubt,
Because you had to know that I was fond of you,
Fond of Y-O-U,
Though I knew you masked your disdain.
I can see that change was just too hard for us,
Hard for us.
You always had to hold the reigns,
But where I´m headed, you just don´t know the way.

So affections fade away,
And do adults just learn to play
The most ridiculous, repulsive games?
On the faith of ruddy sons,
And the double-barreled guns,
You better hurry,
Rabbit, run, run, run.
´Cause meeting you was fun,
And there´s a lot of hungry howlers in this one cell.
We´re taking it over,
Their brittle, thorny stems,
They break before they bend,
And neither one of us is one of them.

And the tails will never mend,
´Cause you had it in for me so long ago.
Boy, I still don´t know,
I don´t know why and I don´t care,
Well, hardly anymore,
If you´d only seen yourself hating me.
Hating me,
When I´ve been so much more than fair.
But then you had to lay those feelings bare,
One thing I know still got you scared,
You´re all that cold iron,
And never once aired of our dead.

You had to know that I was fond of you,
Fond of Y-O-U.
So I took your licks at the time,
And to change like that is just so hard to do,
Hard to do.
Don´t let it whip-crack your life,
And bow out from the fight,
´Cause oh, how your sisters will write.
The worst part is over,
Now, get back on that horse and ride.