The phone...slips from a
Loose...grip
Words were missed
Then some apology

I didn't wanna tell you this
No, it's just some guy
She's been hanging out with
I don't know, the past couple weeks, I guess

Well, Thank you and hang up the phone
Let the funeral start, hear the casket close
Let's pin split-black ribbon
To your overcoat

The laughter pours from under doors in this house
I don't understand that sound no more
Seems artificial
Like a T.V. set

Well, Haligh, Haligh, a lie, Haligh
This weight, it must be satisfied
You offer only one reply
You know not what you do

As you tear and tear your hair from roots
Of that same head you have twice removed
Now a lock of hair you said would prove
Our love would never die, well, ha ha ha

I remember everything
The words we spoke on freezing South...Street
All those mornings watching you
Get ready for school

You combed your hair inside that mirror
The one you painted blue and glued with jewelry tears
Somethin' 'bout those bright colors
Would always make you feel better

But now we speak with ruined tongues
And the words we say aren't meant for anyone
It's just a mumbled sentence to
A passing acquaintance, but there was once you

You said you hate my suffering, and you understood
And you'd take care of me
You'd always be there
Well, where are you now?

Haligh, Haligh, a lie, Haligh
The plans were never finalized
But left to hang like yarn and twine
Dangling before my eyes

As you tear and tear your hair from roots
Of that same head you have twice removed
Now, a lock of hair you said would prove
Our love would never die

And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings
As my fingers press onto the strings
Yet another clumsy chord

Haligh, Haligh, an awful lie
This weight would now be satisfied
I'm gonna give ya only one reply
I know not who I am

But I talk...in the mirror
To the stranger that appears
Our conversations are circles
Always one sided, nothing is clear

Except we keep...comin' back
To this meaning that I lack
He says, "The choices were given and now
You must live them or just not live...
but do you want that?"

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