[00:18.247]A strange boy is weaving
[00:22.400]A course of grace and havoc
[00:26.214]On a yellow skateboard
[00:29.009]Through midday sidewalk traffic
[00:35.827]Just when I think he's foolish and childish
[00:40.138]And I want him to be manly
[00:43.847]I catch my fool and my child
[00:46.929]Needing love and understanding
[00:53.434]What a strange, strange boy
[00:57.352]He still lives with his family
[01:01.741]Even the war and the navy
[01:06.025]Couldn't bring him to maturity
[01:10.413]He keeps referring back to school days
[01:14.828]And clinging to his child
[01:18.929]Fidgeting and bullied
[01:21.359]His crazy wisdom holding onto something wild
[01:27.968]He asked me to be patient
[01:31.155]Well I failed
[01:32.748]"Grow up, " I cried
[01:36.040]And as, the smoke was clearing, he said
[01:39.357]"Give me one good reason why"
[01:45.548]What a strange, strange boy
[01:49.728]He sees the cars as sets of waves
[01:54.273]Sequences of mass and space
[01:58.453]He sees the damage in my face
[02:02.867]We got high on travel
[02:07.125]And we got drunk on alcohol
[02:10.573]And on love, the strongest poison and medicine of all
[02:20.500]See how that feeling comes and goes
[02:24.523]Like the pull of moon on tides
[02:28.676]Now I am surf rising
[02:31.132]Now parched ribs of sand at his side
[02:37.898]What a strange, strange, boy
[02:41.920]I gave him clothes and jewelry
[02:46.544]I gave him my warm body
[02:50.593]I gave him power over me
[02:54.982]A thousand glass eyes were staring
[02:59.344]In a cellar full of antique dolls
[03:03.210]I found an old piano
[03:05.875]And sweet chords rose up in waxed New England halls
[03:12.249]While the boarders were snoring
[03:15.540]Under crisp white sheets of curfew
[03:20.347]We were newly lovers then
[03:22.462]We were fire in the stiff, blue-haired house rules