Shoulder Lyrics

Sometimes communication get's lost. Sometimes the only thing left between people is a language long forgotten--that of the body. It's the painfully executed movement of the eyebrows, the angry raising of an offensive finger, that dutifully careful shoulder shrug. You know what I'm saying girls, when the house gets all broken and the playing has run it's course.

Don't tell me you haven't been there. Don't tell me for you it's been all kisses and, I'm sorries. Like I'd believe you. Childhood is long gone, the bewitchment of it faded. Here we have cemented facts: things go wrong. Dreams don't always come true. And in between love and hate there's that dreadful indifference where words fall away unjaded.

Fuck the rules. I layed it out for everyone to see. There's not always words. "House" doesn't go like we played. Love isn't perpetual plastic smiles. Kissing is much harder when someone else is involved.

Words fail us. Relationships can be sad. We don't get to play a new game.

The game we sometimes play: Shoulder Lyrics.

Let's talk words. Let's talk
like we love the sound of syllables
falling off our mouths as water
rushes around smooth rock. You
know I loved you. (Hey that's the secret,
I said--you know past tense.) I
didn't mean to keep back, it's
just those sounds never came.
I'm tellin' it now (it's too late) but
I'm tellin' it. I've said it before
(the few letters I know to put
together), sorry. I needed to say let's
talk words, except I only talk
shoulders--the careful shrug I
managed when you decided words
were what we talked and
walked out on me, and my non-
musical lips--lyrics long gone.