Signs and Symbols - Hoist the Colors

Wasn’t looking for a symbol wasn’t looking for a sign

The summer rain so sudden came and washed the ink right from the page

Isn’t it just fitting darling isn’t it just right

The time erased we obliterate the book of you and I

Your eyes were premonitions your expressions couldn’t lie

Took a long hard look while you walked away

I built shrines in my mind to your memory

All I got back was misery

In this ocean of a city I was oh so out to sea

So I’ll die a drunkards death

Tried to forget but I haven’t yet

The solitude and empty rooms

Is all that I’ve got left

Take a long hard look while I fade away

I took the train at dawn just to slip into your arms

Nothing was the same and everything had changed

and I left in defeat all alone in these streets thinking of you

I built shrines in my mind to your memory

All I got back was misery

In this ocean of a city I was oh so out to sea

So I’ll die a drunkards death

Tried to forget but I haven’t yet

The solitude and empty rooms

Is all that I’ve got left

Take a long hard look while I walk away

You came around the corner oh a vision in that dress

The years between us disappeared the pain it filled my chest

I kissed you good bye softly and I wished you all the best

The burden slipped from of the yoke and then the pain it left

I built shrines in my mind to your memory

All I got back was misery

In this ocean of a city I was oh so out to sea

Maybe we’ll look back and laugh and wonder how it went so fast

The past aint dead it aint even past

Take a long hard look

While I walk away