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Stupid Mouth Shut Lyrics
The sidewalk bends where your house ends
Like the neighborhood is on its knees
You're surrounded by a chain-link fence
That keeps me out but lets me see
Well I come by most every night
The shutters pounding in the breeze
A clothesline strung like paper kites
That blow my words right back at me
But 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
Cuz the sidewalk bends where your house ends
Like the neighborhood is on its knees
Like the neighborhood is on its knees
You're surrounded by a chain-link fence
That keeps me out but lets me see
The shutters pounding in the breeze
A clothesline strung like paper kites
That blow my words right back at me
I'll tell you everything
Those sweet words spilling all about us
I'll say please please be with me
But instead I'm turning blue
I look at you
And keep my stupid mouth shut
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
Like the neighborhood is on its knees
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Such a delicately sweet song about stalking.
Who knew stalking could be so romantic? It makes me wonder who's looking in my window at the bend of the sidewalk...