[Everyone's right and no one is sorry
That's the start and the end of this story
From the sharks and the jets
To the call in the morning] X2

And life is just bets anyway

Look alive, see these bones
What you are now, we were once

Try as they might, no one’s immune to
Misfiring and acting on the wrong clues
And thinkin’ it’s time to redo and redo

I feel rain in the movies and the talk before the screen lights
I hear strings in the park
I don’t like to call her right, except when its too late at night
I mostly just think in the dark

Look alive, see these bones
What you are now, we were once
Just like we are, you’ll be dust

And just like we are, permanent

You were too tired to eat, too hungry to sleep
Just imagine the speed, it’s just what you need

Look alive, see these bones
What you are now, we were once
And just like we are, you’ll be dust
And just like we are, permanent

The lights in the city are more or less blinking
Which side of the story decides what you’re thinking
We’ll amount in cold faces?
We’re squinting, we’re hurrying
We’ll take inventory
We’re digging, we’re burying

Do you remember when the line was blown
Do you remember when it fell
Do you remember when you went to her house, remember ringing the bell

Look alive, see these bones
What you are now, we were once
Just like we are, you’ll be dust
Just like we are, permanent’

Rivers running up the hills and to the sky and down to the sea
Where a merman with a twinkle casts a hook in me

Sing me a salty blue song, I’ll be gone
With watery cheeks down flowered lanes
Tattered sails on a ramshakle ship, I’ll go pale
Staring straight in the face looming tempest waves
Otherwise I’ll wither and die here
On this reach of rubble rambling
With two years filled up with sand, dear
In a broken daze I’ll be scrambling

Like rivers running up the hills and to the sky and down to the sea
Where a merman with a twinkle casts a hook in me

Summer sky falling into the sea, taking part of me
See the bones on the sand in the light
All the heards of the sea rushing by, pay no mind
To the dancing reflections gone wild
And at night a fractured star fell
And pierced right through the thick of me
I cried out in pain and joy, yes
I’m not dead, not numb, not withering

Like a falling leaf who keeps her green, I’m turning bright in the sea
Where a merman with a twinkle casts a hook in me

Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?