A Murder of One

A Murder of One

"I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal. If you don't find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow." - Adam Duritz

Blue morning, blue morning
Wrapped in strands of fist and bone
Curiosity, Kitten, doesn’t have to mean
You’re on your own

You can look outside your window
He doesn’t have to know
We can talk awhile, baby
We can take it nice and slow

All your life is such a shame
All your love is just a dream

Are you happy where you’re sleeping?
Does he keep you safe and warm?
Does he tell you when you’re sorry?
Does he tell you when you’re wrong?

I’ve been watching you for hours
It’s been years since we were born
We were perfect when we started
I’ve been wondering where we’ve gone

All your life is such a shame
All your love is just a dream

I dreamt I saw you walking up a hillside in the snow
Casting shadows on the winter sky
As you stood there counting crows
One for sorrow
Two for joy
Three for girls and four boys
Five for silver
Six for gold
Seven for a secret never to be told

There’s a bird that nests inside you
Sleeping underneath your skin
When you open up your wings to speak
I wish you’d let me in

All your life is such a shame
All your love is just a dream

Open up your eyes
You can see the flames
Of your wasted life
You should be ashamed
You don’t want to waste your life
Why don’t you change?

I walk along these hillsides
In the summer ‘neath the sunshine
I am feathered by the moonlight falling down on me

Change
Change
Change

(words by Adam Duritz)
(music by Adam Duritz, Matt Malley & David Bryson)