There are stories in the soil, loose leaves cover the volumes in the forest, no one reads out loud If I take them down off of that mountain shelf We used to climb but no one tries to go up that far now,
all too busy working, entertaining ourselves Forty hours television and prescription Well, I two a day to make my brain behave It never does but who's to say, at my doctor gets paid
So that's fine, yeah, come by, we'll take the off We can kiss and undress or if you want talk 'Cause I've got nothing real, just empty space to And you're my girl I like your style, just imagine all the time we kill
And time's not poison but once you it all you'll die So just sip it real slow, yeah, we can nurse it all night Try to believe once it's gone We'll another round and come back to life, come right back
I guess I'm moving faster now or that's what they And though some still take forever I can't disagree Because it seems to me that I up and sleep Look in the mirror, no idea what happened in between
But I remember counting days 'til the year could be done So I could scatter all my notebooks on the prep school And disappear into a summer's bliss Of staying out, sleeping in and getting drunk with my
Well, that's gone and I know that it ever come back I accept I won't cling to what I had in the But life's a slippery slope, regret's the steepest Hope for the best, plan for the and maybe wind up in the middle
And I'm not saying that I what I want But I what I don't, don't want to rot in my room And never know what could been Believe everyone else tells me is true Yeah, say, "True" Yeah Yeah, they say, "True", Yeah, say, "True" what they say, they say