Clifton Springs Lyrics - Page One - Steven Page

I was born old 

I grew up but I got younger 

I was torn, cold 

Now I'm fine but there's this hunger 

And a thirst for the days 

Before I went and razed it all to the ground 

Got a job, found God 

I did everything they told me 

Spoiled the child, spared the rod 

And found someone new to hold me 

Though the love's not as real 

As what I used to feel when it 

All went wrong 

She was young, not scared 

She was everything I wanted 

I was dumb, unprepared 

Had no idea that I was haunted 

By the ghosts of a life 

The night I hid the knives and it all went wrong 

It's an old wound but it opened in a new way 

In a rest room in a rest stop on the thruway 

She calls up her parents 

And admits with embarrassment she was wrong 

Speaking of your mother 

This is how it goes 

When the world gets you down, I suppose 

You can fly away somewhere else 

Of your own volition, of your own accord 

When you're sad, when you're angry 

When you're bored 

You've got to do what's best for yourself 

I awoke, you were gone 

There was nothing left to hold onto 

I was blind, I was wrong 

But I could find you if I want to 

So I fly to the coast where 

The boys you love most 

Sing into your eyes 

I was lost, now I'm found 

I can see but miss the blindness 

Here's my cross, pound 

It's your mouth, your kiss, your kindness 

My stigmata's the regret for how 

I could have let it all go so wrong 

I'm going back to the place 

Where they laughed in my face 

When it all went, all went, all went wrong 

Yes, it all went 

Isn't this what you wanted, darling? 

All went wrong