[00:20.70]The answer came like a shot in the back[00:25.50]While you were running from your lesson[00:31.11]Which might explain why years later all you could remember was the terror of the question.[00:41.01]Plus, you weren't listening hard[00:43.47]You were stockpiling canned goods and making a bomb shelter of our basement.[00:51.24]And i can't believe you let the moral go by while you were soaking in the product placement.[01:03.72]And where was your conscience?[01:07.62]Where was your consciousness?[01:12.87]And where did you put all those letters that you wrote to yourself but could not address?[01:20.46]Yeah, i'm a good kisser, and you're a fast learner[01:30.66]And that kind of thing could float us for a pretty long time.[01:35.91]And then one day, you'd realized you've memorized my phone number[01:41.07]And you'll call it and find it's a disconnected line.[01:45.84]Cuz i got tossed out the window of love's el camino[01:51.75]And i shattered into a shower of sparks on the curb.[01:56.67]You were smoking me weren't you between your yellow fingers[02:02.07]You just inhaled and exhaled without saying a word.[02:09.42]Where was your conscience?[02:13.38]Where was your consciousness?[02:19.14]And what did you do with all those letters you wrote to yourself but could not address?[02:56.31]There's a smorgasbord of unspoken poisons[03:00.60]The whole childhood of potions that are all bottled up[03:05.16]And so one by one i am dusting off labels[03:10.02]I am uncorking bottles and i am filling up cups.[03:14.01]Go ahead and have a taste of your own medicine.[03:19.23]Here i'll have a taste of mine[03:24.78]But first let's toast to the lists that we hold in our fists of the things[03:31.74]That we promised to do differently next time.[03:35.61]Cuz the answer came like a shot in the back[03:40.74]While you ran from your lesson which might explain[03:48.75]Why years later all you could remember the terror of the question.[03:53.52]Cause i'm not listening to you anymore.[04:02.40]My head is too sore and my heart's perforated[04:07.53]And i am mired in the marrow of my 'well ain't that funny?' bone[04:13.74]Learning how to be alone and devastated.[04:18.48]Where was my conscience?[04:24.48]Where was my consciousness?[04:30.45]And where do i put all these letters that i wrote to myself but could not address?