Lyrics to Put On

Put on your best suit and tie

And put on the smile that you faked when you said your goodbyes

I’ll put on my best dress

The one with tulips in shades of blue

And I’ll forget all of the things that I put up with when I was with you

So put down your secrets and the yearbook creases

And I’ll put on my lipstick; you’ll comb your hair back

Soft and sweeping

In a dark basement lost in the shadows we will drift away

When you put on your records of singer songbirds

Who died while fighting for love

Spring came and still I wait

Spring came and they grew up and away

Spring came and I stumbled softly on others far and few

And never could I find a man enough unlike you

So put down your name on black and white pages

Sign on the line and give away all that you’ve made for yourself

If I put down perceptions and my swords

Of sore excuses

What would you be then to me

Nothing more than a man with a mind to change

Spring came and still I wait

Spring came and they grew up and away

Spring came and I stumbled softly on others far and few

And never could I find a man enough unlike you

And I haven’t been touched

Since the day that you went

And the dark wooden floors

They took all I had left

So put on your best suit and tie

And put on the smile that you faked when you said your goodbyes

I’ll put on my best dress

To fake being accomplished

In smooth brown herringbone

And when men in black robes decide our future

Then we’ll know we are grown