Some Streets Lead Nowhere - Matthew Ryan

I can’t tell you where I’ve been now, darling

There are hawks inside my head

And every smile and every good thing

Are picked at till they are dead

I love you was all she said

That’s all she said

From that old street

To that new house

To those beautiful hills

Inside your blouse

To the rain that kept falling

And those years off the rails

When we smiled like two sailors

With holes in our sails

When I’d turn to a coma

With a black hole in my chest

When a kiss was the cure

And I’d save my breath

When you’d walk to the bedroom

And I’d fall on the couch

If I wasted your beauty

I’ll ignite it somehow

'Cause a dream can be cruel

When it haunts you like this

With your eyes like a deer

And the words from your lips

What I’m trying to say is

I was afraid that you’d leave

So I slept with my failures

And I started to grieve

I started to grieve

I started to grieve