Lyrics
[intro]
So here you stand before the cameras
to report on your trip through outer space.
All you know is, yes, it’s still pitch black and
they can tell by the stupid look upon your face,
like a warden stares at a broken chain and knows it’s too late
to learn from a mistake.
Nothing to do but hope and wait….
So you hope and wait.
Oh, replace things that vanish.
Cut down what grows.
Must be more than this before the show…
ends, and you’re in your quiet room again
with a head stuck on what if
and remember when…
Oh, what if and remember when.
So here you run through the shadows,
dodging searchlights tree to tree
in a dream you can’t wake up from, no.
You’re a person you don’t know but don’t want to be,
like shattered glass from a window into the past
where you drank iced tea
under these trees and you laughed…
back when you laughed.
Must be more than this before the show…
ends, and you’re in your quiet room again
with a head stuck on what if
and remember when…
Oh, what if and remember when.
So here you run through the shadows,
dodging searchlights tree to tree
in a dream you can’t wake up from, no.
You’re a person you don’t know but don’t want to be,
like shattered glass from a window into the past
where you drank iced tea
under these trees and you laughed…
back when you laughed.
Oh, replace things that vanish.
Cut down what grows.
Must be more than this before the show…
ends, and you’re in your quiet room again
with a head stuck on what if
and remember when…
Oh, what if and remember when.
So here you are where you remember
the pool hall at seventeen,
fumbling for quarters in the pockets of your jeans, ya.
The king of nothing,.. but you were still a king,
like an astronaut struts into the great unknown
who doesn’t know he will return
but can’t come home…
No, he can’t come home.
Oh, replace things that vanish.
Cut down what grows.
Must be more than this before the show…
ends, and you’re in your quiet room again
with a head stuck on what if
and remember when…
Oh, what if and remember when.
What if and remember when.
Woah, oh oh oh
remember when.
[end]
but can’t come home…
No, he can’t come home.
Oh, replace things that vanish.
Cut down what grows.
Must be more than this before the show…
ends, and you’re in your quiet room again
with a head stuck on what if
and remember when…
Oh, what if and remember when.
What if and remember when.
Woah, oh oh oh
remember when.
[end]
