Irrelevant Lyrics - Singles - Matthew Ryan

There's only one light on in the house 

And that's the light up in the hall 

And it's shining on the back of my head 

And I'm concentrating hard 

On the cigarette, to the ashtray 

From the ashtray back to my lips 

So I lean up from my easy chair 

I rub my three day beard 

And give that thousand yard stare 

As I recall all the time and the money we spent 

Before I became irrelevant 

So the straw dog threw rock salt 

And the precious girl took a bow and walked 

As I ran my finger over the screen door 

Yeah, every kiss has reeked of betrayal 

Since my heroine jumped the guardrail 

And decided who she wanted to be once more 

Now, every night I'm paralyzed 

By the fear of rope burns and morning light 

And the smell of wet cement 

Since I became irrelevant 

Now, memory's just a flash flood 

A thick and black sticky mud 

And heartache it's like a breaking bone 

It was always twelve hours on a missionary line 

You think I would've spared some time 

But I didn't, I never went home 

Now, it occurs to me like blinds undrawn 

Or a bullet from a shotgun 

That she knew long ago, oh, what it meant 

To feel irrelevant 

Now, I'm always smilin', cryin' 

And hidin' my intent 

Since I became irrelevant