deep down

not good enough

you know this

deep down 

yellow splinters across your vision

shards of glass

(not good enough)

tinkling down

and yet nothing fades away

(you know this)

and everything is stark

(deep down)

we were made for one another

(not good enough)

we were made for ourselves

(you know this)

we were not meant to be

(deep down)

not everything can be quantified

to try

(not good enough)

not everything can be caution

i am not caution

(you know this)

and though i may fall

you were sworn to pick me up

(deep down)

what honor in this?

fingerprints on a train wreck

(not good enough)

you should have been proud

you should have tried

(you know this)

and now there is nothing

snuffed out

(deep down)

i'll come up swinging

no credit to you

(not good enough)

i'll come up singing

i'm through with you

(you know this)

i'll come up bringing

a change in the view

(deep down)

deep down, in the place where happiness lives and dies

for i am a god of underwhelmed places

a lord of punched faces

(not good enough)

i am better than any deserve

and i can kill with a word

(you know this)

but your lying tongue 

was not divine

(deep down)

and now we're out of time

yellow splinters across your vision

shards of glass

(not good enough)

tinkling down

and everything fades away

(you know this)

and everything you are is stark

and i know you

deep down

deep down

deep down

you know this

not good enough.