Mercury

Sundays were mosaic
 Those nights smelled like popcorn
 "Lift your hands up!" the man would say
 "Sing a new song!"
 I saw photographs of heaven
 A future from afar
 Then we'd drive home in that Volvo
 I was miserable in that car
 Was it a chore
 To be the man
 To be the man
 All my dreams are killing me
 I cannot reach the old emotion
 The moments I'm after, have vanished forever
 It took so long for me to notice
 A young mother and a rockstar
 But he couldn't pay a bill
 With a wife full of ambition
 It complicated that deal
 And when you came home after midnight
 I always knew why
 But I really loved the freedom
 The boys in the night
 All my dreams are killing me
 I cannot reach the old emotion
 The moments I'm after, have vanished forever
 It took so long for me to notice
 For me to notice
 Do you blame yourself at all for what was lost?
 Tell me: did you do everything that you could?
 Seems like it was nothing to you
 Was it tough to give up on your family?
 I used to be so afraid of the future
 But you told me everything would stay the same
 And I believed you
 All my dreams are killing me
 Why can't we reach the old emotion
 It seems like we'll never be all together
 It took so long for me to notice