There are stories in the soil, loose cover the ground There's volumes in the forest, no one reads out If I could take them down off of mountain shelf We used to climb but no one tries to go up that far now,
We're all too working, entertaining ourselves Forty television and prescription pills Well, I take two a day to make my 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, just empty to fill And you're my girl I like your style, just imagine all the we could kill
And time's not poison but you drink it all you'll die So let's just sip it slow, yeah, we can nurse it all night Try to believe that it's gone We'll pour another round and 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 that I up and sleep Look in the mirror, 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 school lawn And again into a summer's bliss Of staying out, sleeping in and getting with my friends
Well, that's gone and I know that it won't ever come I accept I cling to what I had in the past But life's a slippery slope, regret's the steepest Hope for the best, for the worst and maybe wind up Somewhere in the
And I'm not saying that I know I want But I know what I don't, want to rot in my room And never what could have been what everyone else tells me is true Yeah, they say, "True" Yeah, they say, "True", Yeah, say, "True" That's what say, they say