F C Dm
Our friends on the front porch telling jokes and they swing
A#
Swiftly towards happier times
F C Dm
Expending lines and finding more energy for the effort and
A#
Getting distance from that front porch spotlight
F C Dm A#
But us we found peace in shadows long enough to see the monsters rise
F C Dm
Candy's got some space to fill in her daydreams living high on
A#
Yesterday's lie
F C Dm
Talking to me about some 0% interest and how she got a better
A#
Deal than the next guy
Dm Dm Dm Dm
And the way the lightning shocked us when we were lost and
Dm Dm Dm
Looking down that long missouri highway your hair was longer
Dm Bb
Then and now i remember
F C Dm
Oh the roads unencumbered by cats they're burning like wet
A#
Matches thru my miracle mile mind
F C Dm
You left your thumbprint inside me now for months it seems but
A#
Mine only brushes your soft surface
F C Dm A#
And somehow it leaves me listless, my tongue curls under my lips
Oh yes
F C Dm A#
So i cant speak to tell you of the months before i met you
Dm Dm Dm Dm Dm Dm
And the way the truth it locked us right about the time after
Dm Dm
The lightning shocked us
Dm Dm Dm Dm
When we were young and missing
Dm Dm Dm
Round that small new england byway our lives they were sheltered
Dm Bb
Then and now i remember
F C Dm
Well its not even being about that anymore i gotta get you down
A# F
Those tiny fragments of perfection they please me in a time
C
Unchanged when its not the same beginning
Dm A# F
Or along awaited end.. if i knew all the words i would write
C
Myself out of here
Dm A#
If i was all the colors i would paint you pretty in gold in a
F
Picture so i'm told little sister
C Dm
So now i'm sold little sister why don't you tell me about the
A#
Sunsets in sweden and the laws of eden
F
And how you were the rock of gibraltar and how they called you
C
Foxy
Dm A#
Well that's another whole box of pandoras, that's another whole
Box of them ties
F C
Slide your foot off the gas before we crash right back into the
Dm A#
Median
F C Dm A#
It separates our house from the middle of the street.. talking
About our house
F C Dm
Is on the front porch telling jokes and they swing swiftly
A#
Towards happier times
F C Dm
Expending lines and finding more energy for the effort and
A#
Getting distance from that front porch spotlight
F C Dm A#
But us we found peace in shadows long enough to see a monster
Die.
F C Dm
We all need to find a little space in our daydreams long enough
A#
And just so long.
F C Dm
Long enough, just as long, just so long as its long enough is it
A#
Long enough?
F C Dm A#
Is it long enough for me? long enough for me to chew on.
F C Dm A#
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.
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