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