Living on Art

This song is about still being the same person feeling the same way as always, even as life goes on and changes for the better. As for living on art - or as I prefer to see it, living vicariously through someone else's words, music and pictures (can you live vicariously through your own?) - well, I'd like to think I could, but it doesn't pay the bills. I'll have to stick with writing cathartic songs and sticking them up on free webspace.

Download "Living on Art" from my mp3.com.au page

Did you expect to see me different
did you think that I could change
that maybe everything heals without trace
the further I get out of range

but I feel I could crumble from the inside out
stone with a heart of flesh
I'm better than ever, just ask, I won't lie
my words and expressions will mesh

and I'm living on art because the prices are low
I'm paying the price for letting it go so far
all those times that I thought it was over, I failed
I failed but it's alright

Hope is like a passenger train
if you're ready it takes you but it won't if you're late
and I missed it again though I know the line well
maybe I'm careless, maybe it's fate

I hate to say it but I still don't know today
still can't fathom where I stand
and years from now you'll find me wishing
I spoke the language you understand

til then I'm living on art because the prices are low
I'm paying the price for letting it go so far
all those times that I thought it was over, I failed
I failed but it's alright

it's alright 'cause life goes on
it's alright 'cause life goes on
it's alright 'cause life goes on
I failed, I failed but it's alright

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