Honey, You Can't be a Shark if You're Toothless
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This one is about two people. One traumatic situation I was going through at the time, and one situation where I was more angry than anything at someone. Fun little thing: In the last stanza, there's a line that says "oh and there's that shooting star I wished for a year and a half before". I wrote a poem that I turned into a song on my album called The Rest of the World Can Wait. I wrote it about a year and a half before writing this one, and in the poem I had a line about wanting to see a shooting star at that moment cause I needed a miracle. So the line in this poem is a call back to that song I wrote about the same person/situation in question. But the line is also to express that I felt like even positive things that happened in my life during the time of writing this, were very late compared to when I really needed them. One last note: the lines about pulling a bigger gun are taken from the show Suits that my fiance and I are watching and rewatching. Not exact words, but I took inspiration from the quote that Harvey says.
You're a fool for starting the friction
But I'm a fool for starting the motion
F you, no I’m a fool for believing the notion
And giving my eyes to the intention
The northern lights fell on me
And open ice sheets make me weary
I can see every breath but I don’t feel alive
I can see every breath but I don’t feel so alive
I need a radio to play this line to me every day:
Never burn yourself
To keep others warm
Never burn yourself
To keep others warm
The truth is
I wouldn’t wish it on anyone
I wouldn’t wish this on anyone
When someone pulls a gun on you,
You pull a bigger one
And when someone tells you to give them a show,
You drop the match on the gasoline and have some fun
You’re never gonna guess what he said to me
You’re never gonna guess because in a murder case,
This would be the clue they all disregard
But turns out to be the missing piece
But everything is evidence when you’re over-analyzing
Take off your detective hat and enjoy my presence while it lasts
Broken bones and a heart-shaped cast
I wouldn’t wish this on anyone
Military grade, tested against god’s fists
But it wasn’t made to last
And I already know the grass is greener on the other side
Every blade is a shard of glass that cuts me everytime I try to forget
Well I don’t forget!
And i’ll remember that I wouldn’t wish this on anyone
But will I remember to never burn myself
To keep others warm?
Im tempted to test it but I know I’ll just forget it
When someone pulls a gun on you,
You pull a bigger one
And when someone says to blow them away,
You throw the match on the dynamite and have some fun
Oh, and there’s that shooting star I wished for
a year and a half before
That asteroid hurtling towards earth
Couldn't hit us any sooner
And who's the son of a that said the grass is always greener?
I know I should bring this all to my therapist
But I’m just gonna forget it
Copyright © Matthew Bailey | Year Posted 2023
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