The Man I Knew - Dessa

By the time that you told me it was already plain that you’d changed

But your conscience was clean and as white as a line of cocaine

My back to the wall of your bedroom apartment

You’re talking in circles, got two cigarettes burning

And I couldn’t hide how afraid I was to see you so strange

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got no ill will for you

It’d just been so long, I thought I’d always know you

But you’re so far gone

Up where the air gets thin…

You cut the kite strings

I’ve seen my name in lights, I’ve seen my face in papers

But my civilian life, I spent ten good years waiting

Waiting for you

You charmed the snake

You picked the card

You bent the spoon

A curved plane, the shapes change

Euclid’s made to play the fool, but

I don’t know what that stuff does to you

And I don’t know if it’s real, but

I spent a decade in love with you

And I just can’t tell if you’re here, cause

The man I knew

I don’t think that he can hear me now

So dizzy with the altitude

It’s just too far

Who am I to tell you to come down?

Lucky that my palate still prefers a legal poison

Who am I to tell you to come down?

Sit back and raise a glass, a glass to easy choices

Who am I, yeah, who am I, yeah who am I

To tell you to come down?

Last night you came to kiss me in a dream and when I woke

What kind of foolishness is this

Breathed out a lungful of your smoke

I’ve seen you at your brightest

What a mind, let it burn

Who am I to pull you down to Earth?

Yeah, who am I to tell you to come down?