Laura Lyrics

I said

"How's your new job?

Are you settled in well?

Is it pretty easy-

How can you tell?

Do you get up real early

And do you get home real late?

And when you're riding the bus home

What do you contemplate?

Or do you ride the train?

Do you use your degree?

When you're enraptured by the darkness

Do you consider me?

And how's that new guy?

Does he make you feel good?

Does he leave you feeling empty

Like I always thought he would?

It seems to happen this way.

It seems to happen so often.

Just because we're smarter now

It doesn't mean that we're gonna soften

It seems to happen this way

It seems to happen all the time

Nobody really knows the purpose

Nobody really knows why

So are you busy getting older

Or are you busy staying young?

Has it already ended

Or has it not yet begun?

Are you embattled with hatred

Or are you overcome with lust?

Does the weight of it pain you

And do you feel that it must?

It's gonna happen this way

It's gonna happen all the time

Nobody knows the way around it

But it'll stop when we die

It'll stop when we die."