London woke me up From a comfortable sleep With the screech of a tire And a monotonous beep I pulled back on the blinds And took a one-eyed peak outside
Locked in a daydream Your fire within me For one fleeting moment before I return Petals from your roses Postcards and poses Memories of a love we earned
At my foot is a diary A lone piece of paper There the results of my investigations I'm searching for takers I want you to ache with my aching I'm a long
Long before we ever touched Long before we knew too much I wish we were strangers again Long before we ever kissed Long before I ever missed you I wish
Out of college Out of plans In no hurry To be a man Call a friend In California And head West Interstates See the country Ride the brake In a cobalt
The crumbling walls Are gonna cave in tonight And the powers that have been They will hear our call all right Oh I got a reason to believe We're carving
Rows Of flailing light Rip open eyes Long closed Crack, The clamor of The cranes above She grows Tall And tenuous, She rouses us Below One two One
A long day is winding down The neighbors are arriving The street noise is dying away As they go into hiding The mail says lots of things I find no use
On our way To the glacier Star-lit sky And mist-covered wind When dawn arrives To paint the mountains The sun will reign And the melt will begin Miles
The tile in the kitchen is cracking The stairs through the basement are sinking Somebody told me I'm crazy Thinking past the limits of thinking The crevice
Ia??m going down to the riverbank this morning Way before the family is awake Gonna lay me down at the foot of the water And spill out all my troubles
When you come back to your senses Your heart overcomes your pride I'll be here with an open mind Here to break your fall from misery You expect me to
I don't need no evidence Written in a paper card Saying that you miss me, that living alone is awfully hard Just come home as soon as you can Come home
I took you to a five star dinner I bought you the most expensive wine I even paid off the maitre d' To usher us up to the front of the line You told
Gone just as fast as you entered Gone like a dream as I'm waking up Gone but it's just the beginning There in your slight hesitation And in the halt
There's a lot of learning left for me to do Cause I must know me before I know you Somewhere along the way, I hope there will come a day When I'll be
Build me a sky Build me a scape Build me a rice house on Cranberry lake Float on our backs Drawing figure eights Drift for miles on Cranberry lake I'
Faith is a victim of circumstance In this shallow age It doesn?t stand a chance Just when you think that it can?t get worse They will twist your words