This Side of the Horizon Lyrics

The care with which you listen is informant of how thin the chatter rings

Through rehearsal, self-correction, you improve, but your inflection playback stings

Gazing square into the void, equally bored and paranoid

Nothing built, nothing destroyed

The strength with which you care will govern whether you can navigate the fog

And if continental shelving grounds the coordinates that you steer toward, carry on

But if leagues of gray feel fine, let the rudder bend with time

Along an unforced, crooked line

The pauses you allow between the sins and the confessions make you shy

First in nervous hesitation, then deliberate preservation of a lie

Freckled face and skinny frame help deflect the nascent shame

Boyish charm, and boyish blame

On this side of the horizon, kites are grazing cotton candy skies

My favorite ghost is whispering in wooden coaster gears and seagull cries

Across the curve there could be introductions made, deposits paid

A choose-your-own-adventure, Volume Two

But on this side of the horizon, the midnight sky arrives

A journey's end for idle hearts and unmet minds

There's a danger in romanticizing how you'll be the one that got away

And a juvenile carelessness that tethers to a solitary play

Approaching Summer #32, were you listening for a clue?

Were payments made as they came due?

Masking tape and copy paper showcase naked women on a wall

Looking down onto a race car bed for which a seventh grader's getting tall

Mysteries left to decompose, eyes that tired 'til they closed

A scene you paused until it froze

On this side of the horizon, kites are grazing cotton candy skies

My favorite ghost is whispering in wooden coaster gears and seagull cries

Across the curve there could be introductions made, deposits paid

A choose-your-own-adventure, Volume Two

But on this side of the horizon, the midnight sky arrives

A journey's end for idle hearts and unmet minds