| while i'm / working to afford to have fun with you i'm distracted | |
| to / stillness by the thinking of you from beach to top mountains | |
| paula this / indistinguished suburb grinds my sleep teeth to ruin & powder | |
| you know it to be / true you heard it held me woke me close whispered how it'll | |
| be soon you said / worry baby sleepy head | |
| cut back to / me young and unpressured in contrast to aunts and to uncles | |
| 8 & 10 / older at the cusp of adulthood away walk from play time | |
| i knew then of / those days gold status how they'd look back to fix their hearts worn | |
| and yet here i am write of when i had so many they were of no value when | |
| laid unnumbered end to end / but it's not getting any good | |
| that's a bandage / that we've been using | |
| best of a decade / not while we're here in secaucus bound | |
| let's stop pretending / in never endings | |
| another decade / or until we're out of the hope you found | |
| let's abandon / this house to camden | |
| messed up a decade / let's get away from these home and towns | |
| cause something's missing / we hide by kissing | |
| rest up a decade / we'll need our strength to escape this town | |
| can't tell myself from hopes i've drowned / can't tear myself from this safety town | |
| can't tell each other from stupid clowns |