You Don't Say Lyrics

The plumbing whines with trapped air

Dogs outside try to bark off their chains

And I think

How to get used to this

Earth without you

You don't visit in a dream

To say it's OK

I'm 20 forever

You don't say

I'm high on the altitude

You don't say

I'm high on the altitude

You don't say

I'm high on the altitude

You don't say

You don't say

I can't ask if you remember

That Sunday Central Park

The silence of candles for John Lennon

Or the next day

History class

A note you passed

To say we'd marry when

My hair touched my waist

And my glib eleventh grade reply

As if the world had such easy lengths

You don't visit in a dream

To say it's OK

I'm 20 forever

You don't say

I'm high on the altitude

You don't say

I'm high on the altitude

You don't say

I'm high on the altitude

You don't say

You don't say

The man who crashed into you

Offered to buy your mother a new car

Things outlive you

That cheap Chinese restaurant

Only one wonton in the soup

That bag lady on Broadway

With slot machine eyes

Bob Hope and his TV birthdays

You don't visit in a dream

To say it's OK

I'm 20 forever

You don't say

I'm high on the altitude

You don't say

I'm high on the altitude

You don't say

I'm high on the altitude

You don't say

You don't say

I saw you last winter

Streetlights on at five

And we walked down Riverside

Deciding whether to go

To a college in a dry town

You stopped me at the windows

Of a nursing home

A dining room of chandeliers

Tablecloths green trays

The old folks leaned over plates

And the ones who couldn't manage

Sat apart with nurses

Dropping their chins for the spoon

Stepping back from the window

You said Darkness is comforting

I took your hand

The words froze white

And disappeared

You don't visit in a dream

To say it's OK

I'm 20 forever

You don't say

I'm high on the altitude

You don't say

I'm high on the altitude

You don't say

I'm high on the altitude

You don't say

You don't say

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