Life And Love And The Fear Of Death Lyrics

Right away you seemed to say

You were headed for a second helping

And no one told you not to

Wouldn't even think to

Cause every day of the junior grade

You were looking at a different person

And no one told you not to

Didn't stick around to hear you say,

"I'll let you stay."

By the time you heard I had you couldn't speak

Slow enough to be understood by the best of us

And the sight and sound of speechlessness turned babble on a dime

Was a treasure that I captured in my mind for sadder times

When the friendship of a lover always tumbled into sight

Even years and years beyond the closer times it never died

Right away you seemed to say

You were fixing for a summer wedding

And no one dared to imply

That waiting would be polite

And some men say if you're well behaved

You may end it all and keep on going

Way up in the moonlight

Looking down on midnight in the square

I'll meet you there

When we've talked it out so much it's word for word

With or without the other one's input

And it's written down for later generations to dispose

All the folly and redemption is exposed in heady prose

On a little scrap of parchment buried right beside our bones

In a bottle that we emptied here at home

So one day everything blacks out

And I don't want to be left alone

When someday everything times out

It's too late to wish you had changed your tone

So I say everything comes out

With time and will as the only stalls

And we make time and will break down

Whenever we lay in bed for long

So one day when my watch winds down

And I don't know if it winds again

I swear to you on the way out

I'll remember to blow a kiss

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