Well, my cars been tellin me to get a job
And stop running its poor tires into the road.
Ive been livin in the backseat with a friend of mine
Shifting bodies to even out the load.
And weve been moving so long it seems we have forgotten
What it feels to just be standing still,
Forgotten leaving home or the evenings spent alone
Hung upon the telephone and windowsill
Theres a sparkle in your eye and I know just what it means
When this lonely coast cant keep another night,
So we pull up to the yard on Windsor Boulevard
First driveway, second building on the right.

I just might be in love with the lady at the counter
But itll take a couple days to figure why.
Shes got diamonds in her hair that I wish werent there,
Constellations on her head and in my eye.
And she cant find our room, but smiles half a smile
And asks us if wed care to stop and pray,
And theres a semi-sacred shuffling coming down from overhead
As the mortal in me begs me not to stay.
Then wires wrap swift around me, cutting off my chance to choose
For time has shown me truth, and truth alone,
And by the time the song is done the man I thought I knew is gone
And I sleep under sheets and shards of bone.

Im trying to grab a new perspective
But the window sells and awful lonely view.
The noises coming through the walls are fatal,
The innocent in me tells me theyre not true,
And I would be a fool to say Im sorry
For things I never knew,
And we would be a fool to say were sorry
For things we never knew

And I know I cant afford to stay another night
Cause my moneys running lower than the tide.
I packed up my belongings round a week ago
But havent had the guts to bust outside.
Theres an older man decaying on the courtyard,
Says he was happier back in his former years,
When the land, it had no end, and time slid out and back again
And the mystery of the world was close to clear.
Now hes just one step closer to the ocean
Now hes just another mote above,
And he watches earth recede, and he whispers as he leaves,
"You remember nothing more than those youve loved."