Two Part Invention

See how the chips fall where they may, how my lips sink ships, drift astray

How I've missed you, I've been a bad boy
But seventeen, it takes forever, and me

I was already on fire, dreaming with angels

Remember every little thing
You've got to remember every little thing...
My child, there, I know, I'm coming to get you, but oh

I'm running so slow, like a dream, and the dawn it is quickening
My friends they all thought I was the one who was lost

I learned that irony from the start of my life
Remember every little thing
You've got to remember every little thing...
Trumpets peal, I've realized all that's real
And love is a white-golden road I pave with my blood now

I was a fraction at best, a sad king's court jester, or less
I was a two-part invention, she was my melody
God, she was my melody...