You learn to walk Try to run and play Catch up with your left then your right You start to talk Cry for fun And say how all the things that you left weren't right Thrown at a wall Kicked down a hallway that you painted in blue Shows you the truth after all Take a glance at your life through the looking glass Tinsel thin, braided like rope You fray the ends So nothing ever lasts Undoing is a slippery slope Burning down a home To take away Everything you've grown Thrown at a wall Kicked down a hallway that you painted in blue Shows you the truth after all Right before you lay me down Cover me with your hands and hold me when You're about to send me off, learn to give Thrown at a wall Kicked down a hallway that you painted in blue Shows you the truth