Castle By The Sea

When I tell my stories, they’ll be tales as tall as buildings
Life is purgatory but we don’t know that as children
So don’t you contradict me as I eulogize myself
If heaven is the present then let’s go to hell

If you mourn your childhood, invented though it may be
Travel in your mind to the middle of July in a castle by the sea

Heartache is behind me, so I dull the pain with fiction
Let me stumble blindly making love to apparitions
My mind’s a haunted mansion where I conjure my own ghost
The rooms I never saw are those I miss the most

That world is so perfectly vivid it’s almost like it actually happened
It’d be much worse if I’d lived it, like everything, it’s better imagined

The lies grow only stronger with each passing year they’re told
Bluff a little longer and the truth will fold