The Shins - Pink Bullets Lyrics

I was just bony hands as cold as a winter pole 
you held a warm stone out new flowing blood to hold 
oh what a contrast you were 
to the brutes in the halls 
my timid young fingers held a decent animal.

Over the ramparts you tossed 
the scent of your skin and some foreign flowers 
tied to a brick 
sweet as a song 
the years have been short but the days were long.

Cool of a temperate breeze from dark skies to wet grass 
we fell in a field it seems now a thousand summers passed 
when our kite lines first crossed 
we tied them into knots 
and to finally fly apart 
we had to cut them off.

Since then it's been a book you read in reverse 
so you understand less as the pages turn 
or a movie so crass 
and awkardly cast 
that even I could be the star. 

I don't look back as much as a rule 
and all this way before murder was cool 
but your memory is here and I'd like it to stay 
warm light on a winter's day.

Over the ramparts you tossed 
the scent of your skin and some foreign flowers 
tied to a brick 
sweet as a song 
the years have been short but the days go slowly by 
two loose kites falling from the sky 
drawn to the ground and an end to flight.