Nick Lutsko
1,000 Days Later
Here's to the sun
Here's to how bright
It seems it used to shine
When we were young
Here's to the thought
That our eyes are just shut
And here's to the sky
Here's to the picture
That it used to paint
Above you and I
Before we were blind
Here's to the night
When you realized
That I was just
Wasting your time
Here's to the moment
I finally noticed
You're probably right
Here's to the time
That flies by me
Like cars on the highway
Recklessly unsure
Does anyone know
Which way they're facing toward?
Here's to the lie
Here's to the lie
You disguise as your life
Pretend to be fine
Yea choke up on laughter
You're bleeding through both eyes
And here's to what's right
Here's to the choices
That we're supposed to make
But we don't all the time
Maybe I'm dying when I say
Here's to the rain that keeps falling
And drowning the thoughts in my head
At least I will never die thirsty
And you know you can only get so wet
Here's to the story we're writing
The pages we've lost
The time I've spent hiding
The reasons I've got to be
Distant and silent
Or loud and obscene
There's places I've been
That I still haven't seen
There are things I remember
I can't wait to forget
But I know when I do
I'll be 6 feet past dead
There were words that you told me
And pictures they painted
Here's 1000 days later
I still feel the same
And I still see the sun in the same sort of way