Our friends on the front porch, telling And they swing towards happier times Expending lines and more energy for the effort And getting from that front porch spotlight
But us, we peace in shadows Long enough to see the rise Candy's got some space to fill in her Living high on lie
Talking to me about 0% interest And how she got a deal than the next guy And the way the lightning us When we were And down that long Missouri highway
Your hair was longer and now I remember Oh, the unencumbered by cats burning like wet matches Through my miracle mind
You left your thumbprint me Now for months it But mine only your soft surface And somehow it me listless
My tongue curls my lips, oh yes So I can't speak to you of the months before I met you And the way the truth, it us Right about the time after the lightning us
When we young and missing Round that New England byway Our lives were sheltered then and I now I remember Well it's not even about that anymore
I gotta get you Those fragments of perfection They please me in a time When it's not the beginning Or awaited end
If I knew all the I would write myself out of If I was all the I would paint you pretty in gold in a So I'm told, sister So now I'm sold, sister
Why you tell me about The in Sweden And the of Eden And how you were the of Gibraltar And how they you Foxy
Well that's another whole box of That's another whole box of them Slide foot off the gas Before we right back into the median
It our house from the middle of the street Talking about our is on the front porch Telling jokes and they swing swiftly towards happier lines and finding more energy for the effort
And getting from that front porch spotlight But us we found in shadows enough to see a monster die We all need to find a little space in our
Long and just so long enough, just as long, just so long As it's long enough, is it enough? Is it long enough for me? enough for me to chew on
If it isn't, if it isn't, if it ain't, if it don't, if it can't it won't And that's just the way it goes