Frame for One - Jesse Marchant

Why should I believe

You would try

When I seen you

Long let go of your own life

Pissing your time away on the phone

Like it’s the stage for every side

You’ve never shown

And not the frame for one

Who never would try

Ain’t no lie I’ve been running away

From every long idea of life and love

For the way that so much pain

Always follows behind

Sitting alone out there

I had been doing just fine

Guess I still believe in love

Way I feel broken

In the sights of her crooked smile

And if I’d been more of feather

Than of bone

When she had shed

All of her light on me alone

I wouldn’t have been

So long thawing out

Come my leave

I’d be rolling in a wave

Always far out of reason

But I had one all the same

Sooner or later

It all came following behind

And then alone out there

I was just doing time

In the twilight

With all my mending bones

Still a hairline crack

In each one, give it time

But I was well tired of waiting

When I leapt off my ship

Into the tide

Shit

Now the past lies there

On an ocean

To float on and die alone

And the wind blows it

Far out of mind

With the waves all bowing over

In a tunnel of time and its ghosts

Maybe it will live on in my mind

Come my way

I’d been following a lie

Or been a long time leading it

It’s foggy in my mind

So much pain

I’d been blurring the lines

Under a mountain of weight

In the calm of denial

Couldn’t stand it

Seeing you there alone

Through a crowd

Of laughing people

Sincere as a child

Wish I knew how to hold on

To what it’s worth