Trampoline - The Unlikely Candidates

Everybody’s crazy for pretending they’re not

Used to be as kids, but I guess we forgot

How many years does it take to unlearn?

Life’s just a game and it’s just your turn

I look out the window at my old trampoline

Forgotten and rusted like all of my dreams

Maybe the best thing that I can do

Is begin again and start things anew

So I’ll beat the drum and scream at the sun

Trampoline, up, up, up, down

Begin again and find a new end

Trampoline, up, up, up, down

Trampoline

She led me by the hand to the trampoline

My muse walked me through my dizzy drunken dream

Young lovers making heat on a summer night

Her lily skin burning naked and bright

We confessed to each other that we felt the same

She pulled me in close and softly breathed my name

Wish I could stare again into those eager honest eyes

That now in my mind glare at me with despise

So I’ll beat the drum and scream at the sun

Trampoline, up, up, up, down

Begin again and find a new end

Trampoline, up, up, up, down

Trampoline

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

Wish I could go back and a-just rewind

And see the world through a newborn’s eyes

Strip my consciousness of its filters and its favorite lies

I’m tired of being one of the living dead

Walking through their doldrums to their icy beds

They exchange cold shakes and disposable smiles

A mess of unhappiness and denial

I just want to dance in the pouring rain

Not care if people call me insane

Live and love like I’ve never been hurt

Come home happy, covered in dirt

So I’ll beat the drum and scream at the sun

Trampoline, up, up, up, down

Begin again and find a new end

Trampoline, up, up, up, down

Trampoline

I want to see your face and not feel a thing

I want to hear your name and not feel its sting

I want to be pure, I want to be cured of this degenerative disease

These dark dreams and these lies that I believe

Oh, trampoline