Fool's Timing - ALCHEMICAL

 

Inspired By: The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived

I hear the conversations

Fade into the noise

As deep as the oceans

And as fierce as the tides

The summit was extraordinary

And the plummet, steady

I threw myself over the ledge

After you were destined to catch me

I call it fool's timing

When the prospects of my fate had turned

Buried in my soul but never forgotten

Was a fear I would set this ticket on fire

I mourn my stolen innocence every once in a while

Grew up to twenty-five when I was seventeen

Roaring with laughter into the silent night

I saw the Sun come up the next morning

I call it fool's timing

It took three months for me to understand

I'm sorry, I sought a painted sunrise

And bought a canvas, that stayed blank

I still remember the first fall of snow

Early December, settled cold in my bones

All alone in the sand pit I built a castle

So close to the edge of the world

I'll scratch out the expiry date

Etched into my shoulder blades

And sabotage the storyline

I wrote with my mind, on a temporary high

I call it fool's timing

Ruined November for me forever

I gulped down my hot coffee

Left this to be a message in a bottle

And so I wait by the river each night

Curse the freedom handed to me in the amber sunlight

Luck was the lady dressed in shimmering moonlight

Reflecting off the surface of a frozen daydream I wouldn't fight

I call it fool's timing

Hope it never reaches your shores

Threw it into the grey skied oceans 

Won't let you ruin Boston for me anymore.

-auctor