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
                                       
Looking down that long missouri highway your hair was longer
                    
Then and now i remember
                                                     
Oh the roads unencumbered by cats they re burning like wet
                               
Matches thru my miracle mile mind
                                                           
You left your thumbprint inside me now for months it seems but
                               
Mine only brushes your soft surface
                                               
And somehow it leaves me listless, my tongue curls under my lips
Oh yes
                                                     
So i cant 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 now i remember
                                                         
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
                                                  
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 is t .. if it ain t if it don t if it can t
Then it wont.