So it's over now and the dashboard lights tell you what to do go home and sleep because tomorrow morning you'll have to see this through downtime got all these tripwires running through my mind not what he needed past time to draw the line some sad joy you take in staying distant and you're sure you're so complex well tell me what's so novel about indifference to the lasting effects so you're older now gotta be less reckless in what you do time to tell the truth you feel nothing despite the warmth he thinks he's dredged from you some days I know it in my bones shouldn't have to be this way but the gloss of history says foregone conclusion babe and it's true in some antiquated fashion you pare your needs and aim for dispassion while you try so hard not to ask what happened you said it best you're not the first to get my worst