Foundations

"Is everybody coming undone?"

She asks me with a straight face

and sometimes its hard to tell the truth

when all I know is that we're all just trying to stay afloat

That's the way it is, that's just the way it is

It feels like I've got to get away

like there's got to be a better way

because when you've got to get out

you've got to get out

Promises where I swear that I am fine are getting harder to keep

they're getting harder to believe

I should be old enough by now

to stop pulling at my hair and tearing at my skin

but we're so young

It feels like we're so young

"Is everybody coming undone?"

She asks me with a straight face

and sometimes its hard to tell the truth

when all I know is that we're all just trying to stay afloat

That's the way it is, that's just the way it is

The cranes hang quietly tonight

as if to remind us that this is home

and that this is how we live now

with no back-up plan or way out

From here I can see it all

every false step that I made

and how I let it chip away at the foundations

that I am set upon, as I stood by again

But we are nothing without resilience

because we are all tied up in our own ways

Worst come to worst, failing everything

we pick up the broken pieces

and put them all back together again

"Is everybody coming undone?"

She asks me with a straight face

and sometimes its hard to tell the truth

when all I know is that we're all just trying to stay afloat

We'll stay afloat, we'll stay afloat