You carry my picture
You wear me around your neck
Sometimes like a treasure
Sometimes like a cross
To keep those vampire memories at bay
You grin and you bear it
You grin and you bear it

I thought I saw
Something run though this house
Through the walls without slowing down
Flew across the floor
In my peripheral vision

You carry my picture
You find one in the drawer today
Wild-eyed, Northern, like you
Now I’m the old man and heavier in every way
Better before the world led me astray
That was the dream
Picture are memories
But those are the days

I thought I saw
Something run though this house
Through the walls without slowing down
A child flew through the room
In my peripheral vision

Now and then is bringing you down
Then and now is wearing you out
Don’t look back. Be here with me now
If you can somehow
Be here with me now

I thought I saw through the walls
A child flew through the room
A child flew through the room
In my peripheral vision