You Must Have Known - We Are Temporary

You always knew

And you knew again

Tapping furtive texts at 6am

The wartime stratagem

I’ve grown tall on your frail shoulders

Brawling in dark corners

As I fly, you flail and crawl

At my beck and call

I miss the smell of leather

The chant of the bell

The raised and the felled

The snap of our tether

No, a fight’s never fair

We’re just the clueless cavalry

Without the storied glory

Of an epic rivalry

I always knew

You must have known

I gamble spades and hearts

Puff my chest like Bonaparte

The big payoff of this song and dance

Is every chance

And so I shimmy shake and shiver

Wading through the icy river

Yeah it numbs the guilt

I always knew

You must have known