"The Ballad Of Glen Campbell" lyrics

Don't say it aloud
But my tears have all dried and frozen, waiting
Whole months in the black
'Till my yesterdays joined and started feeling new
There's comfort in the panic of watching love blur and skew

I'm now finally moving along
Needed someone to cling to
When I met the drop
Oh, I swayed from longing to apathy in a breath
Certain of nothing but the next cigarette
At the drop, at the closing of the pits
Oh, I felt the sting of love's once hidden whip
Then you came out the grey
How you stumbled in, built a bed
Cut my hair and shaved my face
I felt her slipping away
Like a stone at the surface of your beautiful lake

Now I can't remember (I kept all my hurt)
The autumn rains (For the good it serves)
The scratching of winter (God, how used and trite)
The fallen days (Shake when you see it)
Oh, baby, you're killing all thought of her softly
We woke in the morning to Glen Travis Campbell
And I swear, I've never felt so new
Oh, I'm so smitten by you

Darling, Miss Matador, you beautiful semaphore
You could convince me that nothing else matters at all

Don't say it aloud
But my tears have all dried and frozen, waiting
Whole months in the black
Till my yesterdays joined and started feeling new
There's comfort in the panic of the blur and skew
I chased every feeling to empty for you

Now I can't remember (I kept all my hurt)
The autumn rains (For the good it serves)
The scratching of winter (God, how used and trite)
The fallen days (Shake when you see it)
Oh, baby, you're killing all thought of her softly
We came down that morning to Glen Travis Campbell
And I swear, I've never felt so new
Oh, I'm so smitten by you

(And now that last year's love has hardened and set)
(Like veins of turquoise through stone)
(I realised that walking away was the closest we had ever got)
(And that childish perception that I had was merely a broken eyepiece resting on a broken nose)
(Dying to be shown)
(Well, you fixed me a lens and refused the retreat)
(Brushed away the old shards with the crumbs on your sheets)
(Picked up the dream from where it hung)
(Tucked it behind your ear and said, "Darling, that's quite enough")