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our friends on the front porch
telling jokes and they swing swiftly towards happier times
expending lines and finding more energy for the effort
and getting distance from that front porch spotlight

but us we found peace in shadows
long enough to see the monsters rise
candy's got some space to fill in her daydreams
living high on yesterday's lie
talking to me about some 0% interest
and how she got a better deal than the next guy
and the way the lightning shocked us
when we were lost and we were
looking down that long deserted highway
Well, our hair was longer then, and now I can remember
Say, now well I remember oh-so-well
Almost too well, now

oh the roads unencumbered by cats
they're burning like wet matches
thruough my miracle mile mind
But it's all in my mind
you left your thumbprint inside me now
for months it seems
but mine only brushes your soft surface
and somehow, somehow it leaves me listless,
my tongue curls under my lips, oh, oh yes

so I can speak to tell you of the months before I met you
and the way the truth it locked us
right about the time after the lightning shocked us
when we were young and missing
round that small new england byway
our lives they were sheltered then and I now I remember
And I remember well, so well
It's almost too well

well its not even being about that anymore
I gotta get you down
those tiny fragments of perfection
they please me in a time unchanged
when its not the same beginning
or along awaited end..

if I knew all the words
I would write myself out of here
if I was all the colors
I would paint you pretty in gold in a picture
so I'm told little sister

so now I'm sold little sister
why don't you tell me about the sunsets in sweden
and the laws of eden
and how you were the rock of gibraltar
and how they called you foxy (foxy)
well that's another whole box of pandoras,
that's another whole box of them ties

slide your foot off the gas
before we crash right back into the median
it separates our house from the middle of the street.. talking about our house

is on the front porch telling jokes and they swing swiftly towards happier times
expending lines and finding more energy for the effort and getting distance from that front porch spotlight
but us we found peace in shadows long enough to see a monster die.
we all need to find a little space in our daydreams long enough and just so long.
long enough, just as long, just so long as its long enough is it long enough?
Is it long enough for me? Long enough for me to chew on.

If it isn't..
If it is't ..
If it ain't
If it don't
If it can't then it wont.
And that's just the way that it goes.