well our friends on the front porch
where they're telling jokes and they swing on
swiftly towards happier times
they're expending the lines
and finding more energy for the effort
and getting distance from that front porch spotlight
but us  we found peace in the shadows
long enough to see the monsters rise
candy's got some space to fill in her daydreams
living high on yesterday's lies
talking to me about some 0% interest
and how she got a better deal than the next guy
and the way the lightning shocked us
when we were lost and we were looking
down that long missouri highway
your hair was longer then and now I can remember
see  now well i remember oh  so well
oh  the roads unencumbered by cats
they're burning like wet matches through my miracle mile mind
you left your thumbprint inside me now for months it seems
but mine only brushes your soft surface
and somehow  somehow it leaves me listless
my tongue curls under my lips  oh yes
so I cant speak to tell you of the months before I met you
and the way the truth it locked us
right about the time after the lightning shocked us
when we were young  when we were young and missing
round that small new england byway
our lives they were sheltered then
and I now I can remember
say now  i remember so well
almost too well
well its not even being about that anymore
I gotta get you down
those tiny fragments of perfection  they please me in a time
unchanged  when its not the same beginning
or along awaited end
if I knew all the words  I would write myself out of here
if I was all the colors  I would paint you pretty in gold in a picture
so I'm told little sister
so now I'm sold little sister
why don't you tell me about the sunsets in sweden,
and the laws of eden
and how you were the rock of gibraltar
and how they called you foxy
well that's another whole box of pandoras
that's another whole box of them ties
slide your foot off the gas
before we crash right back into the median
right back into the median  the median
it separates our house
from the middle of the street
it separates our house
on the middle of the street