Dreamer from Ultra Malaise by Robert Schipul

the whole house is empty
when the day is at the end
ghosts float through the hallway
greet me as i round the bend

i will try my hardest
i will always look both ways
had trouble standing up today
had some trouble keeping pace

what was it like as a child?
what was it like yesterday?
i tell you can’t remember
everything i did anyways

every time i look in the mirror
i see pairs and pairs of eyes
staring right back at me
pulling apart all these lies

you can throw this on the fire
you can rake me over coals
you can try to climb higher
but the bottom’s falling out
and my heart is full of holes

you can take another minute
you can spin into free fall
you can tell me what i’m not
but it’s all in the cards
and the writing’s on the wall

i promise to think only good thoughts
i promise to say my prayers at night
take another hour to replay
whether what i did was right

every time i look in the mirror
i see pairs and pairs of eyes
staring right back at me
scraping at all these stupid lies

you can try to call a truce
you can try to call it off
you can find it in the books
where the page wasn’t ripped
where the lines weren’t loose

i can only hear those words
i can only see behind
i can try to make it worse
if i fall out of line
keep it out of my mind

i can
i can
you’re falling on the way out

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