Sandy dancing across the water
She has fallen before but this time she knows
Every step precise as she returns home
She dances with a broken heart, broken dreams
Fixing to avenge the lost land of plans and schemes
Doing so with a smile, holding a silent scream
Broken boardwalk
I can almost hear her talk
Telling us, like a fly on the wall
Telling us her stories, telling them all
Lovers unknowing walk two by two
Down the boards next to an ocean once blue
At night the voices in our heads
All day the angels on our shoulders talk
Sandy's closing in now, to leave behind a broken boardwalk
Broken boardwalk
I can almost hear her talk
Telling us, like a fly on the wall
Telling us her stories, telling them all
I saw the city die once when they burned it down
Again when the EMO kids moved to town
Where my dad took me as a kid, high up on his shoulders
Same boardwalk twenty years later, all my secrets I told her
But now that she's gone, I'd give anything just to hold her
Broken boardwalk
I can almost hear her talk
Telling us, like a fly on the wall
Telling us her stories, telling them all
Ocean ave to the tracks separates the whites and blacks
From the carousel to the center they say "things have gotten better"
And because every day brings one less person to blame
We take that road south looking for a change
But life's a two way street
And the shore life is just a boardwalk of broken dreams
All that's left is a few stories and splinters in your feet