Mercury Sable Lyrics

I can hear your nearing Mercury Sable

Growl beneath the tunnel as you make your way over

It rattles like a busted guitar cable

And promises ex-boyfriends made that got left over

Now it's you and me and tea at the breakfast table

Nursing our amazement and a small hangover

Whatever came before

Your eyes in the morning

Has blurred into a boring little episode of nothing

When you ran into my landing

Jumped into my arms

No one told me love would hold me

Ever again, despite a life of constant false alarms

And all the neighbors saw me laughing so hysterically

All that I could do to keep from crying

And I'm sorry

I can't make sense

Of something so completely

Intense

We walk toward the water

Where the freighters scrape the land

We pass the ancient motels

Where the folks pay by the hour-hand

Lots of strange concoctions popping up this spring

The garbage and the dandelions blossom like an offering

For you and me and the bad joke I just told

We laugh at all our dumb luck

And the house we say we'll buy before we get too old

Where maybe our kids'll pull pranks

For now we walk through Hubbard Farms

And kick discarded nitrous oxide whip-it tanks

That the joyride people suck down

To make the woken nightmare

Not feel like such a letdown

And they could hear your nearing Mercury Sable

Growl beneath the tunnel as you make your way over

When you ran into my landing

Jumped into my arms

No one told me love would hold me

Ever again, despite a life of constant false alarms

And all the neighbors saw me laughing so hysterically

All that I could do to keep from crying

And I'm sorry

I can't make sense

Of something so completely

Intense