Walking By

Your grand dad left home for the circus

He was young just like me

With hope to explore

He married a girl in Virgina

She could sing the trapeze

They could sleep on the floor

Your mother was born in December

On the one sunny day that winter gave up

She had warm summer eyes

That flickered like fireflies

When she stared at the world

So why do you leave these stories unfinished

My Cheshire cat doorstop with tears in her eyes

Why do you look when you've already found it

What did you find that could leave you walking by

She was raised in a New England village

Than she moved to LA with her firefly stare

You love sunset when it sparkled

You grew up and you sparkled but why don't you care

So why do you leave these stories unfinished

My Cheshire cat doorstop with tears in your eyes

And why do you look when you've already found me

What did you find that could leave you walking by

These nights I get high just from breathing

When I lie here with you I'm sure that I'm real

Like that firework over the freeway

I could stay here all day but that's not how you feel

So why do you leave all these questions unanswered

The circus awaits and you're already gone

My Cheshire cat doorstop with fear in her smile

What makes it so easy for you to be walking by

And what did I do that you can't seem to want me

Why do we lie here and whisper goodbyes

Where can I go that your pictures won't haunt me

What makes it so easy for you to be walking by