I give, I give my perfect plan away

Whooooooooo!
In the background
In the background
No up or down
In the background

My body makes the same mistakes again

Oh, your precious heart is breaking
Why must I stand in line all the time?

There's such a lack of time now, such a lack of time now
It's something I've been thinking about, something I've been not talking about too much now
Something I just know is true, do you?
I've been keeping it mum, I've been keeping it quiet
But I think it's time I say it aloud now, say it aloud

Under
Prepared and slept
It's no wonder
Wish I was younger and

Thunder
Would sound
Rain come down to soften
Aging too often

This is the end of our youth
Lost our last baby tooth
And we're tired
Our bones are growing thin
Loose as they are in our skin
I'm still waiting to begin, I'm still waiting to begin

The way it goes, you take a step and follow through
And gentle noises come home to roost
And on the map this site is marked
A thousand decisions made in the dark

Flight, a word, a female word
With eyes that trace a lifetime in reverse
The swollen belly-fears of sleep
Psychotic desires that you can keep

The way you used to feel at night made me do it
The way, the way, the way you chip away

Stalks and flowers
That you stood underneath
Walked for hours
The longer we walked on the closer we came to

Making good on
What we knew to be true
Ten years ago when
We met and had our first debate

Today is just until night fades right through it
The way, the way, the way you slip away

The way you used to feel at night made me do it
The way, the way, the way you chip away

We're growing older
Our friends all keep moving on
While we remain here
I hope it's no been to long

No matter worry
Or things we cannot control
The outcomes nothing
The doing is its own goal

Let it smolder
We're of different design
Grow no bolder
This fabric is holding it's far from unfolding

Into tatters
Which matters if laughter is any clue as to
How through we are before we're done

Face, the same old face I used to smell
The neck connected for sure can tell
The tingled spine and crooked arms
The body's mysterious bad-luck charms

What pray tell keeps running me off the road
An antediluvian moral code
A fear that love is more than chance
And I'm not just a victim of circumstance

Cement and sand
Cement and sand
It's what's all around
All around

Hood and camera
Hood and camera
We saw them leave you there on the ground

We sever, we sever
I never, I never
Could hope to believe that we're in this together

We're betting it's better
Untied and untethered
We're leaning on you and you're light as a feather

Remember, remember
A day in september
We're coming to you for each coal and each ember

Tread and turret
Tread and turret
End up on the run
On the run

Bore and bullet
Bore and bullet
Can still come undone
Come undone

We sing mission accomplished
We bring just bread and water
Something better to offer
For your wives and your daughters

Scorched and scattered
Scorched and scattered
Walk away then one by one

Give back the gulf stream war
Give back the gulf stream war
Return the sheath to sword
Repair the page you tore
No shutters anymore
It's too hard to ignore
Give back the gulf stream war
Give back the gulf stream war

Don't leave the bed
Nothing is set
Cover your head
Let's lose regret
Pretend we'd never met

Nothing is set
The things we sowed
Are not dead yet
They grow and grow
And soon they'll be a feast

From the outhouse to the oceans All our plans now are in motion From the outhouse to the oceans

Time is near
But we live forever
So be clear

Let all the old folks be young folks too
If only for this one afternoon
We'll clear the weeds where the willows grew
We'll burn this old house build something new

Give flight to all of the flightless birds
Make use of all of the unused words

Make air to all of the airless rooms
Give fruit to all of the fruitless wombs
Weave thread through all of the threadless looms
Find brides for all of the brideless grooms

I come to conclusions, I've got no illusions
I come to conclusions, I've got no illusions
I come to conclusions, I've got no confusions
I come to conclusions, I've got no illusions

And you can see it take shape
We're making something great
No more with making mistakes
And no more time to wait
We give it more than it takes
Today the tide will break

Come drink the oceans dry
I spend my life inside a burning house
A fire I don't ever want to douse

And if you want it you can come on up and get it
Time is near
But we live forever
So be clear
Gather hay and heather
We are here
In this magic weather
Time is near
Come drink the oceans dry
I spend my life inside a burning house
A fire I don't ever want to douse

This is the break of a gaze
And this is when you look away
These are the best of the days
And This is such a sweet charade

Won't you, won't you tell me
Won't you, won't you tell me
Won't you, won't you tell me
You left good and healthy

After all I've been through
I don't care if it's true
I've just got to believe it

I'm still standing alive
Weathered all you contrived
I'm a plane crash survivor

Will you still know my face
Sense a feeling of place
A year is quite a long passage

Here are my wooden teeth
Here is my wooden tongue
Knew that you had to leave
But knew not for how long

You know that you've been away

So it's another long dance
A time to recognize my skin
And every cat-and-mouse-trap
That I'm so keen on falling in
The timing's far from perfect
The patchwork's working itself through
I've seen your eyes from two sides
How can they seem both old and new?

You wanna say that you'll do it, you wanna say that you'll do it
That seems enough for now,
You wanna say that you'll do it, and after all you've been through it
That seems enough for now, that seems enough for now

I feel I've come to know you
From the impression in your chair
It's given me a slow taste
Of how a normal form prepares
To take advantage of one
Night or another with four arms
Four legs and two locked muscles
That come apart like balls of yarn

Won't you, won't you tell me
Won't you, won't you tell me

Steppin' away from the door
You're runnin', you're runnin' out
Steppin' away from the door
You're runnin', you're runnin' out
Asking the heavens for more
They're runnin', they're runnin' out
Asking the heavens for more
They're runnin', they're runnin' out

Don't open your mouth
Don't open your mouth

For the first time since we were
Something new and incomplete
I feel sure of where we stand
Though I can't just pick up my feet
Simply leave what I have built
Too much guilt would hinder me
Though my knees shake my feet are still where they will to be

I would like to take the time
To apologize for my
Inability to choose
I could use some help of some kind
Insincere as that may seem
It is clear to me that we
Can assure each other that we can recover

Not dark yet
Towards sunset
Warm breath of sugared air
The place where we met

In low light
Fear we might
A wet fist full of lawn
Field in the cold night

And after
Rotted rafter
I'm bracing for the end
You shake with laughter

One last thing
Just wondering
Where all the girls have gone
The hearth is crumbling

Go forward now, and leave all the rust alone, I'm thinking
For once I should become a soldier for what I know

In pursuit of lost time let's
Not forget there's no such thing
And we might as well accept
Where we are and where we have been
I'm afraid that packing up
I could leave some things I need
I don't see advantage in having no strategy

I'm engineered for romance but restricted to philosophy
This information blown from brain to brain's become beleaguering

Close doors all day, and I'll walk into a solid wall, if I could
Turn off my brain, I'd redesign what I can't recall

Home
Has hid me well
I'm overgrown
With chaparral
Just as the sun will set and come up on again then

Oh, it's way too late to make up for what we've done wrong

We're sorry for all that we've done to everyone and still come out untouched
But too much time passed since our crime and everyone has forgotten but us