No One Can
Album: How It Is
By: Holly Figueroa O'Reilly
By: Holly Figueroa O'Reilly
Duration
4:29
Genres
Description
This song is about my room mate in college who killed himself rather than come out as gay to his parents or friends. I knew he was gay, but what I didn't know was how unhappy he was.
Lyrics
isn't guilt a vicious lover isn't time a gentle mother i'd give anything for one or the other right now a lover to keep me in my place or a mother to dry my face i'd take guilt or gentleness in place of this in place of emptiness how could you find no way out and no way in why, when i was right there all the time, could you not know when to stop or how to begin why would you lie alone in your room dying silent as sin no one can live in this house now that your gone its full of lights that won't turn on and you are the only one who made us smile i'll strip your bed, put your pillow on the floor box up your letters and leave them by the door but i still don't believe you won't be coming back home i can still hear you laughing in the room upstairs where only you and i would go i can feel you around every corner every wall echoes with your hello i can taste you in the air i can smell the discontent of a restless soul i don't know how to let it go, and I guess its too late to be singing this song to you doesn't that sound just like something i would do i would do anything to bring you back.
