Trampoline - Joe Henry

The floor will have its way, it seems

It fights me like a trampoline

It won’t let me on the ground

So this time I’m not coming down

This time I’m not coming down

I’ve been talking in my sleep

You once kissed me not to hear me speak

And loved me just so you could leave

Every bit of life wrung out of me

And this time I’m not coming down

This time I’m not coming down

Trampoline

Trampoline

The whole platoon is overfed

And we’re in this thing over our heads

My mind it’s never been so clear

But I stutter like an auctioneer

As the night has come alive with dreams

That hoot and holler, spit and scream

Every one of them is sick with lust

But every one of them will outlive us

And this time I’m not coming down

This time I’m not coming down

Trampoline

Trampoline

And if I really thought I could

I’d give up your ghost for good

But I’m not sure it isn’t you

That keeps my ghost from leaving too

But I don’t miss you half as much

As who you made me think I was

When I could see myself the way you do

I could almost see myself in you

I could almost see myself in you

This time I’m not coming down

This time I’m not coming down

This time I’m not coming down

Trampoline

Trampoline

Trampoline

Trampoline

Trampoline