SMOKE AND MIRRORS

In my room with the shades pulled talkin’ treason

The right space in time for all the wrong reasons

Thought it’d do me some good to get back and get even

But I remember what they said

just cause you don’t feel the club Don’t think it’s you they’re not beatin’

A child opens his eyes and the whole world is golden

But maze is full up and it’s boys like you that it’s holdin’

Ya take your father’s place drinkin’ here’s mud in your eye

And if this last forever we’ll all have convictions But we won’t know why

What’s the difference between us we both speak the king’s English

And wish on the same stars in the sky

And regret all the mornings we were too drunk to crawl home

Then wish we were too drunk to cry

In a better place this would all be smoke and mirrors

But I’m afraid it’s all true this old soldier grows weary

They stoke fires for kettles and the street smells like heaven

And just blocks away signals are readied

They’re not checking credentials when the final tolls levied

I’m sure they cry on both sides

And the last drink is just so my hands can stay steady

What’s the difference between us we both speak the king’s English

And wish on the same stars in the sky

And regret all the mornings we were too drunk to crawl home

Then wish we were too drunk to cry

In a better place this would all be smoke and mirrors

But I’m afraid it’s all true this old soldier grows weary

Like a child who hides his head under the cover

You tip your glass back and you ask for another

And you drink yourself blind ‘cause what you see just undoes ya

and the tallies are posted for all

good intentions and corpses tower above you

What’s the difference between us we both speak the king’s English

And wish on the same stars in the sky

And regret all the mornings we were too drunk to crawl home

Then wish we were too drunk to cry

In a better place this would all be smoke and mirrors

But I’m afraid it’s all true this old soldier grows weary