Easier

When you came behind the counter
 You moved just like a marionette
 Just a fragile apparition
 Of the person that I once met
 Seemed like the world could see
 The skeleton beneath the skin
 Another puritan that never lost the
 Taste for sin
 I always know that you're in trouble by the
 Color that you dye your hair
 And the artificial lenses hiding all the thoughts
 That got you there
 One day they'll fall like scales and
 Let the light on through
 And it won't break my heart
 To see your brown eyes blue
 When all the rain stops rattling the roof tops
 After days of waiting for the other shoe to drop
 When it's easier, when it's easier
 Flip off the zenith if it isn't living up to its name
 We'll watch September fall to
 Grays and browns, and beige
 While across the river they'll be living
 Out their salad days
 Tied to the mast and rowing faster
 As the chorus sways
 When all the rain stops rattling the roof tops
 After days of waiting for the other shoe to drop
 When it's easier, when it's easier
 When it's easier,
 We won't mind
 When it all comes down,
 And the sun goes blind
 When it's easier,
 They'll know we were the vines that held
 The walls upright for all this time
 When all the rain stops rattling the roof tops
 After days of waiting for the other shoe to drop
 When it's easier, when it's easier
 When all the rain stops rattling the roof tops
 After days of waiting for the other shoe to drop
 When it's easier, when it's easier