Stupid Mouth Shut

The sidewalk bends where your house ends
Like the neighborhood is on its knees
Surrounded by a chain link fence
Keeps me out but let's me see

Well, I come by most every night
The shutters pounding in the breeze
A clothesline strung like paper kites
Blow my words right back at me, back at me

Someday when my heart exhales
I'll tell you everything
Those sweet words spilling all about us
I'll say please, please be with me

And I'll breathe so easily
But instead I'm turning blue
I look at you
And keep my stupid mouth shut

The hall light streams out through the screens
And the shadows capture me in webs
Just tangled up in what I've seen
And every word I have not said, I have not said

Someday when my heart exhales
I'll tell you everything
Those sweet words spilling all about us
I'll say please, please be with me

And I'll breathe so easily
But instead I'm turning blue
I look at you
And keep my stupid mouth shut

'Cause the sidewalk bends where your house ends
Like the neighborhood is on its knees