Words and music by Monte Amende
Copyright 2009

VERSE I
Steps into play

Brags as he’s
 taking a rocking horse down



Asks her to stay
Comes across needy and flittery



Pulls the strings
Waving back
 he marvels at his restraint



Closing in

Something has changed 
but nothing feels different

PRECHORUS
Filling up on empty notions

By full moon he philosophized

The shear folly, star crossed lovers
dreamers and their filthy minds

So no wonder thrice rejected
Scheming now, and laying mines

False and fateful, blows his leg off
Reckoning the pitch refined

CHORUS
So hold your breath this time

The planets sway in line

When destiny is at hand

God bless the also ran

VERSE II
The gathering gray

The clouds roll in and lightening seems targeted

Claims she's afraid

And once he said 
she could do anything

Now dropping blame

and drops that name

Shaky and lame

As she goes
 like he could let her remain

PRECHORUS
Did you ever hear the story

The boy who could not count to four?

How his cohorts love to tell it

And he laughs along since he can't keep score

A year slips by a storm still lingers

Veterans return, alone and blind

Out of nowhere, here's to hubris

He gave up, but she resigned

CHORUS