He wears a broken pocket watch
That always reads 2:45
And he swears it’s been stuck exactly that way
Since the moment that his father died

And he carries his burdens in a knapsack
Heavy on his shoulders all day
And he wears it around this dirty old town
But I’ve never once heard him complain

But the simple minded love their symbols
And hollow they love their filler
And I tried loving you the way nobody could
But your best friend is surely your killer

In a dawn spotted well kept apartment
She fumbles to find all her clothes
There’s an unfamiliar man, sprawled out on the bed
And her monies all gone up her nose

She’s branded with shame like a tattoo
A secret that nobody knows
And she wears it around this dirty old town
Cause she says it’s the life that she chose

But the simple minded love their symbols
And hollow they love their filler
And I tried loving you the way nobody could
But your best friend is surely your killer

But the simple minded love their symbols
And hollow they love their filler
And I tried loving you the way nobody could
But your best friend is surely your killer