A Better Way

by Tell Everyone We're Dead

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I’ve left so many lives without turning to look behind me
And you could be anywhere with anyone but you’re still here, still beside me

If this is over
Why are we not coming apart?
What if we saw fit, with all we’ve learned,
To take it all right back to the start?

What if, this time, things could be different?
What if we saw ourselves, for the first time, with all of the tenderness we’re missing?
What if we were something more than just the sum of the worst things we have done?
What if we could all but break the cycles that, ‘til now, we had all but been dismissing?

I’ve left so many lives without turning to look behind me
And you could be anywhere with anyone but you’re still here, still beside me

If this is over
Why are we not coming apart?
What if we saw fit, with all we’ve learned,
To take it all right back to the start?

Where maybe we could find a better way
To wander always
These endless hallways
Insisting there’s more we’re determined to find

Where finally we can align

We could be everything to everyone
Until it’s you and me in an empty room
And we both know what we’ve done
And we can’t pretend that we’re not who we are now that all of this has gone this far
We have seen beneath each other’s skin and we still have time to turn and run

But I won’t be disabused, darling,
Now that we’ve got something to lose
I am finding the root to it all for the first time
Diving in slow and emerging new

But even with all the work we’ve done,
We’re still repeating
This self-defeating
Solution, reminding ourselves that, while

Every kind of love is conditional
We’re still conditions
Bereft of vision
For futures with anything novel

But maybe we can finally tell ourselves
We’re still pretending
That this same ending
Will someday
Reveal what we’re missing

And maybe we could find a better way
To wander always
These endless hallways
Insisting there’s more we’re determined to find

Where finally we can align

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released January 29, 2024

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