Paralyzed Lyrics

Paralyzed lyrics

(Rosanne Cash)



I picked up the phone, you were both on the line

Your words to each other froze me in time

A lifetime between us just burnt on the wires

Dissolved in a dial tone, consumed in your fires

Your footsteps beside me, the phone in my hand

I can't move

I can't stand



Our faces in pieces, facades on the floor

The pretense between us for a moment destroyed

I don't want to go on with these words in my heart

But the ghost of your anger will tear us apart

How my little world just went up in smoke

I'm too young

I'm too old



One day soon I'll know

One day soon I'll just let it go



I run from the bedroom with legs paralyzed

I carve out my future part prophet, part blind

It's nobody's business, no one is to blame

We'll meet in the distance, new numbers new names

I've lifted the veil, I've walked through the fire

I'll move on

I'll go higher