Lowell Thompson - 5 Years lyrics

He mumbles to him, fumbles the meaning Down at the tent of fragile and clinging To life as the light of a streetlight in ember Shines on the features he's trying to hide He stumbles and he stutters and stares at the shutters They're green as the wisdom he tries to reclaim All of the meaning the moment is fleeting He wrestles his terror and boldly he says Are you like me? Are you; I mean Do you like me as more than a friend? Silence is torture to boys on a porch Watching rocking chairs rocked by the ghost of the wind There's a look in his eye and its blank Like when men walk the plank Only one step to go and there's no way it's safe Now he's holding his face and slowly approaching He starts retreating, it's a pause just in case Then the other he dives into the deep end And deepens the reasons they'll remember the day So he likes him Now they are We Clearly they are more than friends 5 years down the road, about 20 years old And they both wear a ring as an honest promise Then late one evening while walking on home And talking to love on a cellular phone 4 men approach him with chains and a pipe They scream epitaphs cause he wont put up a fight 2 weeks in a coma before he succumbs To the injuries suffered under warm April sun See he loved him And they were We Why couldn't they leave them alone? Some hes like hes Some shes like shes Why can't we all leave them alone?