Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh

The phone slips from a loose grip

Words were missed, then some apology

I didn't want to tell you this

No, it's just some guy she's been hanging out with

I don't know, the past couple of weeks,I guess

Thank you and hang up the phone

Let the funeral start, hear the casket close

Let's pin split black ribbon to your overcoat

The laughter pours from under doors in this house

I don't understand that sound no more

Seems artificial, like a TV setHaligh,

Haligh, a lie,Haligh

This weight, it must be satisfied

You offer only one reply

You know not what you do

As you tear and tear your hair from roots

Of that same head you've twice removed

Now, a lock of hair you said would prove

Our love would never die, well, ha ha ha

I remember everything, the words we spoke on freezing South Street

All those mornings watching you get ready for school

You combed your hair inside that mirror

The one you painted blue and glued with jewelry tears

Something about those bright colors

Would always make you feel better

But now we speak with ruined tongues

And the words we say aren't meant for anyone

It's just a mumbled sentence to a passing acquaintance

But there was once you

You said you hate my suffering, and you understood

And you'd take care of me

You'd always be there, where are you now?

Haligh, Haligh, a lie,Haligh

The plans were never finalized

But left to hang like yarn and twine

Dangling before my eyes

As you tear and tear your hair from roots

From that same head that you have twice removed

Now, a lock of hair you said would prove

Our love would never die

And I sing and sing of awful things

The pleasure that my sadness brings

As my fingers press onto the strings

Yet another clumsy chord

Haligh, Haligh, an awful lie

This weight would now be satisfied

I'm gonna give you only one reply

I know not who I am?

But I talk in the mirror

To the stranger that appears

Our conversations are circles

Always one sided, nothing is clear

Except we keep coming back

To this meaning that

I lack He says "The choices were given"

And now, you must live them

Or just not live

But do you want that?