Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh

The phone slips from a loose grip
 Words were missed, then some apology
 I didn't wanna tell you this
 No, it's just some guy she's been hanging out with
 Oh, I don't know, the past couple of weeks, I guess
 I thank you and I hang up the phone
 Let the funeral start, hear the casket close
 Let's pin a split-black ribbon to your overcoat
 The laughter pours from under doors in this house
 I don't understand that sound no more
 It seems artificial, like a TV set
 Well haligh, haligh, a lie, haligh
 This weight, it must be satisfied
 You offer only one reply
 You know not what you do
 And you tear and tear your hair from roots
 From 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
 And 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 'bout 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
 Well, 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 you've twice removed
 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
 And my fingers press onto the strings
 Yet another clumsy chord
 Haligh, haligh, an awful lie
 This weight will now be satisfied
 I'm gonna give ya 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?