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I couldn't stand another second in your room staring |
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At the easy gestures of your wrist spreading perfume sparingly |
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Behind the ears and across the neck I once studied so carefully |
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It had been too long |
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It had been too long |
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It had been too long since I had watched you move |
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I had to cut out for some fresh air on the landing |
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But I got nothing but the smell of rotten fruit rising up from the alley |
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Suddenly I realized I wasn't young anymore and I was still hiding out from your daddy |
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I had spent so long |
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I had spent so long |
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I had spent so long loving you |
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My mother built her name on getting out of sorry situations |
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My father bought a piece of land he didn't care to ever stray from |
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And I was the very worst kind of cool combination |
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I wanted to stay |
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I wanted to stay |
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I wanted to stay but I always go |
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I don't know if I can go and drink with you on Saturday |
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I've been dizzy inside this dirty window since that last time you walked away |
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Well the cars and trucks bolt and fizzle like fireworks on the freeway |
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But I wonder where they go |
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I wonder where they go |
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I wonder where they go to explode |
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You and me I guess we were just born to be free Sally |
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Well that's the kind of think you say when you lose your grip on something |
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I pushed my way this far but now I don't know how to stop running |
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And I can't stand still |
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I can't stand still |
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I can't stand still and follow you |
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I don't mind losing everything that I lived for once |
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The earth spins for seventy-five cents down at the local laundromat |
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Well Chris says you've got to lose your head something to save your neck |
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So Sally go on |
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Sally go on |
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Sally go on and that's just what I'll do |
