No Friend lyrics

Another brick-red room, another black-top town

Another misspelled band burning their own houses down

Another pine-box tune to fill the cemetery day

Another star, a touch of orange over purgatory gray

Another thorny field to scatter fruitless seed

Another song that runs too long, God knows no one needs

More misguided ghosts, more transparent hands

To drop a nickel in our basket and we’ll do our riot dance

Beneath another burning sky, behind our painted lips

In scores of catatonic smile-covered ankle-bitten ships

Throw your pedestal of stone in the forgetful sea

As protection from the paper-thin perfection you project on me

When this repetition ends behind the window shades

A semi-conscious sorrow sleeping in the bed I’ve made

That most unrestful bed, that most original of sins

And you’ll say that’s what I get when I let ambition win again

I’d hate to let you down, so I’ll let the waters rise

And drown my dull reflection in the naive expectation in your eyes

Back in a cast bit-part, back when I felt most free

I had a butcher’s heart and no one thought they knew me

So before the regiment resumes, before the dreaded sun appears

My driver’s waiting, so let’s make one point crystal clear:

You see a flood-lit form, I see a shirt design

I’m no savior of yours and you’re no friend of mine…