You Wear It Secondhand - Idlewild

Take the same walk everyday up to the north end

Down on to the sand

Surrounded by nothing

Nothing’s all you have

Concentrated sadness, leftover loneliness

It never seems to pass

You go looking, you looking for them

Trying to relive moments that happened and won’t happen again

You keep looking, you keep looking for them

Trying to relive moments but you’ve grown up

Too fast, an occupation that won’t last

It’s too bad you took your best ideas from the past

I bet you’re so glad that you only wear it secondhand

I’m walking up and down red hotel corridors by the Madison Bypass

And language, I lost it all to love

But threw up all I knew about summer

We were young, confirming what we knew

Nothing could last

But you keep searching and looking for them

Trying to capture moments that happened and won’t happen again

You keep looking and looking for them

Trying to hold those moments but you’ve grown up

Too fast, the occupation that won’t last

It’s too bad there’s nothing permanent from your past

Is that a quote directly taken from The Wasteland?

Yes, I knew that you wear it secondhand

I’m transforming, I’m complicating

I’m never sure what I’m meant to be saying

But I, I’m performing, I’m concentrating

But we haven’t been introduced, automatically calling you

I’m transforming but I’m concentrating

But I’m never that sure what I’m meant to be saying