the lawrence arms - faintly falling ashes
another senseless week of crowded thoughts and crooked teeth, of morning frost and frozen sidewalks. all those days that burned inside us swell up in the silence of snowflakes falling magically. then the magic fades into the memory of sleighbells ringing, laughing all the way. cold hands of winter grasp as i gasp for breath, is this my last? no thoughts of dying no more self loathing for today. so deck the halls with drunken folly, swallow resolutions, line our stomachs with illusions. car engines sputtering like these smoke filled dreams, mistletoes and colored lightbulbs. and the kiss of winter fades into the memory, angels singing lift me off the ground. yesterday is frozen in the reverie, tomorrow’s melting. let’s raise our glasses to these faintly falling ashes.