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while i'm / working to afford to have fun with you i'm distracted |
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to / stillness by the thinking of you from beach to top mountains |
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paula this / indistinguished suburb grinds my sleep teeth to ruin & powder |
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you know it to be / true you heard it held me woke me close whispered how it'll |
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be soon you said / worry baby sleepy head |
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cut back to / me young and unpressured in contrast to aunts and to uncles |
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8 & 10 / older at the cusp of adulthood away walk from play time |
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i knew then of / those days gold status how they'd look back to fix their hearts worn |
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and yet here i am write of when i had so many they were of no value when |
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laid unnumbered end to end / but it's not getting any good |
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that's a bandage / that we've been using |
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best of a decade / not while we're here in secaucus bound |
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let's stop pretending / in never endings |
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another decade / or until we're out of the hope you found |
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let's abandon / this house to camden |
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messed up a decade / let's get away from these home and towns |
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cause something's missing / we hide by kissing |
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rest up a decade / we'll need our strength to escape this town |
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can't tell myself from hopes i've drowned / can't tear myself from this safety town |
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can't tell each other from stupid clowns |