eruption

we tell the story and it is a game

so many years pass without a thought

and then we pause and know we have been caught

 

what we believed a lamp was just a flame

and we've forgotten most that we were taught

we tell the story and it is a game

 

this is the point when we are half past shame

and well past counting all that we have brought

to the last table this adds up to naught

we tell the story and it is a game