DRY ICE By Tom Jensen
This is usually when you cry…
You blinked and yet your eyes were dry
So you think you might be getting better
My heart is getting warmer
Hooray, notch a chink in my armor
Protecting me from this wintery weather
So what’s the deal?
Do you feel like
Life’s not for real
Like your fate’s been sealed
Or do you feel like you can’t heal
You say you wanna escape
I ask from what and you say,
"From everything"
Then you ask:
"What if it’s too late?"
I said, "It never is...
Haven't you heard the songs I sing?"
You said you tried… to love someone more than yourself
You tried…. but that didn’t work out so well
You tried…. but each time you went through a living hell
You tried…and that’s why you locked yourself
Inside of this heart-shaped prison cell
This is usually when you cry…
You blinked and yet your eyes were dry
So you think you might be getting better
Oooh…but the world’s so cold
You think, “You can barely save your own soul”
As you re-read a stack of dusty, old love letters