There are stories in the soil, loose leaves cover the There's in the forest, no one reads out loud If I could them down off of that mountain shelf We used to but no one tries to go up that far now, yeah
all too busy working, entertaining ourselves Forty television and prescription pills Well, I take two a day to make my brain It never does but to say, at least my doctor gets paid
So that's fine, yeah, come by, take the afternoon off We can kiss and undress or if you want just 'Cause I've got real, just empty space to fill And you're my I like your style, just imagine all the time we could kill
And time's not poison but once you drink it all die So let's sip it real slow, yeah, we can nurse it all night Try to believe that it's gone pour another round and come back to life, come right back
I guess I'm moving faster now or what they said And though some days still take I can't disagree Because it seems to me I wake up and sleep in the mirror, have no idea what happened in between
But I remember days down 'til the year could be done So I could scatter all my notebooks on the prep lawn And again into a summer's bliss Of out, sleeping in and getting drunk with my friends
Well, that's and I know that it won't ever come back I accept I cling to what I had in the past But life's a slippery slope, regret's the hill Hope for the best, for the worst and maybe wind up in the middle
And I'm not saying I know what I want But I know what I don't, don't to rot in my room And never know what have been Believe everyone else tells me is true Yeah, they say, "True" Yeah, say, "True", Yeah, they say, "True" That's what say, they say