Rung Cold

There was magic in reaching
In grasping but not understanding
Everything you were doing
You wrote like a lunatic
Your 3's and your E's were looking runic
Now there's a fog every morning
But there's a mountain right behind it
You were verified and you were deep
And you knew everything was embarrassing and cheap
There were political considerations

And rumored affiliations
You walked the tightrope of speaking without saying anything
You traded a witch for the devil in all the frenzy
In an ocean of strip malls for a country
Everybody knows
The modern world is just so wrong
But I'm just grateful for the screen time
Just a little bit of me time
Overstimulated, and rang to a daze
Rung cold at the end of every day

You think you're free but you can't walk away
All those giant mechanical windmills
Are spinning around tonight in the dark still
OD'd on the cappuccins
All of a sudden the sun is up again
Now every time the phone rings I shake
Claustrophobic in a wide open space
Bubbled tint and weaponized fences
Shivered and bell rung, I came to my senses
By a tv with Czech news on in a bank by a cattle ranch

Hayseed ran provincial branch
There was a grown man in a paper crown
There's a gas station by the castle now
There's a break in your heart
And If your heart ain't in it
You gotta get just out of if it
Belly down in the mud at dawn
Every day ring your hands raw
Drudge through it all somehow
You look dead when you sleep now

Stability changed your perspective
You're meaner now, no longer introspective
But I still got a picture of you in an O's hat
On your birthday on the Chesapeake bay
There's a break in your heart
And If you can't get along with it
You gotta just get on with it