everyone has a skeleton and a closet to keep it in

you might need to fill a prescription to kill off the silence

shall i say, i have gone at dusk through narrow streets

i am nothing of a builder, but here i dreamt i was an architect

and so it is, just like you said it would be

but then what kind of scale compares the weight of two beauties

box up your gloves and your down coats, bound for the sun and the west coast

she says to meet her there, beside the power station, she said she'd let me stare

and there in the blacklight I could see the tatoos glowing on your body

under our blue skys, marbled skys, i found a home in your eyes

and while the seagulls are crying we fall but our souls are flying

like I could feel the future on your skin

nobody gives you a chance or a dollar in this old town

your guard is up and i know why

cause you sound so close but it feels like you're so far

I laid you down in the grass of a clearing. you wept, but your soul was willing

you broke the bonds and you loosed the chains, carried the cross of my shame

I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar

the end is growing near, we're treading water now and holding back our tears

there are things that we've done that we cannot undo

the city keeps on going, we just keep on rolling

this is the story of the boys who loved you

and i think of your letters like love letters, which is how i think of songs

i guess that this is the price that we pay for the privilege of living for even a day in a world with so many things worth believing in

this little world's too fragile now

the yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window panes

you're all laughing in the garden and i'm lost somewhere in your mind

and i laugh to myself, as the tears role down, cause its the world i've known

we will wade in the shine of the ever, we will wade in the tides of the summer

i never made promises lightly

i'm asking you to go, all the way to mexico

in eyeliner you wrote me a note that I'll never read at all

i've grown old on this ocean, gave her all my stronger years

there's a piece of you that's here with me

i miss who we were in a town we could call our own

in restless dreams i walked alone

your hands were trembling from all those pills you took

and maybe we'll get lucky and we'll both live again

stop crying to the ocean, stop worrying over me

well, my kind's your kind

hide your bad habits underneath the patio, patio

she's a long one, such a long one

wake up lying in a patch of four leaf clovers

we were hiding from the rain, we were riding on the train

and the ones that know you so well, are the ones that can swallow you whole