There are in the soil, loose leaves cover the ground There's volumes in the forest, no one out loud If I take them down off of that mountain shelf We used to climb but no one tries to go up far now, yeah
all too busy working, entertaining ourselves Forty hours television and pills Well, I take two a day to my brain behave It never does but who's to say, at my doctor gets paid
So that's fine, yeah, come by, we'll take the off We can and undress or if you want just talk 'Cause I've got nothing real, empty space to fill And you're my girl I like your style, imagine all the time we could kill
And time's not poison but once you it all you'll die So let's just sip it real slow, yeah, we can it all night Try to believe that once gone We'll pour round and come back to life, come right back
I guess I'm faster now or that's what they said And though some days still forever I can't disagree it seems to me that I wake up and sleep Look in the mirror, have no idea happened in between
But I remember counting days down 'til the could be done So I could scatter all my notebooks on the prep lawn And disappear into a summer's bliss Of staying out, sleeping in and drunk with my friends
Well, gone 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, plan for the worst and wind up in the middle
And I'm not that I know what I want But I what I don't, don't want to rot in my room And know what could have been Believe what everyone else tells me is Yeah, say, "True" Yeah Yeah, they say, "True", Yeah, say, "True" That's what they say, say