There are stories in the soil, loose leaves cover the There's in the forest, no one reads out loud If I could take them down off of mountain shelf We used to climb but no one tries to go up that far now,
all too busy working, entertaining ourselves Forty hours and prescription pills Well, I two a day to make my brain behave 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 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 not poison but once you drink it all you'll die So just sip it real slow, yeah, we can nurse it all night Try to believe that once gone We'll pour another and come back to life, come right back
I I'm moving faster now or that's what they said And though some days still take I can't disagree Because it seems to me 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 scatter all my notebooks on the prep school lawn And disappear again a summer's bliss Of staying out, sleeping in and getting drunk with my
Well, that's gone and I that it won't ever come back I accept I won't cling to what I had in the But life's a slippery slope, the steepest hill Hope for the best, plan for the worst and wind up in the middle
And I'm not saying that I know I want But I know what I don't, don't want to rot in my And never what could have been Believe what everyone tells me is true Yeah, they say, "True" Yeah, say, "True", Yeah, they say, "True" That's what say, they say