Tears that Don't Matter

Open a door, hold hands

Empty your pockets and get to know Jesus

Have a heart, watch where you're going

That's where you'll see enough blood for a lifetime

Play nice, learn a lesson

Fall apart as easily as moonlight

Know what you want, give it to someone

Spending their memory's nickels and pennies

You're only as empty as a lost and found

A cup with a crack, a necklace to tangle

Only as true to life as a lost and found

Socks and a watch left in a lunchbox

Tears that don't matter now

Make time, die trying

Trust your gut if it's there for the taking

Look alive, don't listen

Anything worth it is said in cold water

Fly right, eat a rainbow

Speak of the devil when gods in the details

Meet the moment, kill kindness

Finding and keeping that pot you can piss in

So are you or are you not the lost and found?

A coat with a phone, a crayon for breaking

Only as true to life as a lost and found

A rock and roll keychain, that wish you could whistle

And tears that don't matter now

What goes in is never what comes out

That hole in a yarn ball, some pieces of seashell

You're only empty as a lost and found

Sounds from a house, the end of a candle

That kiss for your trouble, ice and its goosebumps

All the runaway meanings of keeping your hat on

The names and their bruises, some eyes that got empty

One chance in a million, the light where you lost her

The miles and a mother shed like a snakeskin

Some shame and some anger and all the drugs just for nothing

Swimming of colors on a Japanese beetle

When the cynic within you finally bowed to a daughter

And the sea and its reasoning and the bones of your music

And that voice that you love and the life you were dreaming

The doors that keep closing, all the hands you let go of

And the tears that don't matter, tears

All the tears that don't matter