(Sullivan) 2016 We watched you disappearing like a passing bullet Up the dirty streets into a nothing day We never thought it could be us that you were running away from And you were already gone anyway Your disappointment it is hard to conceal So slow to grow and slower to heal It wasn’t that they wanted to chain you down It was always that they wanted you to take them with you The bubbling streams that flow down the hillside Get slow and lost in the great wide plain And energy attracts the things that cannot move There’s so much that fills the slipstream behind you You were never scared of anything We thought it was the courage that we all lack You gave so much of everything You were never much interested in getting it back You were born feral – passed from hand to hand like a loaded gun Ain’t it hard now – to remember just who you were? Bad dreams – of people you last saw years ago Still pass before your eyes The garage is filled with bits of broken machinery Coffee black and knuckles strong And they all still turn to look at you But no one knows what to do with a wild one But courage is not an everlasting spring Dry seasons come that you cannot defy And it’s not where you run but who you run with You’ll be looking for them until the day you die You were born feral – passed from hand to hand like a loaded gun Ain’t it hard now – to remember just who you were? Bad dreams – of places you last saw years ago Still pass before your eyes Published by Attack Attack Music
