Landmines

you watched your cat get ran over
you were broken in your pain
I was stoned upstairs
trying to remember my own name

our friends got weirder
with their eyes as red as roses
they lifted heavier things
with their needles
and their noses

always girls
with their miseries
as mysterious as stars
and as obvious as gravity

landmines in my mind called memories
I gotta watch I don't get blown to smithereens
don't you know what I mean

I climbed up and I jumped and when I hit
I was completely numb
you drug my broke ass to the carnival
and it wasn't even fun

I walked forever like an ancestor
exiled from my mind
in the sackcloth and ash
of a borrowed pair of your levis

we stuffed yer Mazda full of dope plants
and headed back to base
I've never been an astronaut
but I swear to god I've been to space

landmines in my mind called memories
I gotta watch I don't get blown to smithereens
don't you know what I mean

now the sun is coming through the curtains
and I must leave
I can't change the way it was
only change the way it's gonna be

don't look me in the eye
and don't get tough
what you think you know you don't
and what you know you mostly just made up

you do what you can
and sometimes even what you should
aint it a shame the way the good ole days
weren't even all that good

landmines in my mind called memories
I gotta watch I don't get blown to smithereens
don't you know what I mean