The sidewalk bends where your house ends

Like the neighborhood is on its knees

Surrounded by a chain link fence

Keeps me out but let's me see Well, I come by most every night

The shutters pounding in the breeze

A clothesline strung like paper kites

Blow my words right back at me, back at me Someday when my heart exhales

I'll tell you everything

Those sweet words spilling all about us

I'll say please, please be with me And I'll breathe so easily

But instead I'm turning blue

I look at you

And keep my stupid mouth shut The hall light streams out through the screens

And the shadows capture me in webs

Just tangled up in what I've seen

And every word I have not said, I have not said Someday when my heart exhales

I'll tell you everything

Those sweet words spilling all about us

I'll say please, please be with me And I'll breathe so easily

But instead I'm turning blue

I look at you

And keep my stupid mouth shut 'Cause the sidewalk bends where your house ends

Like the neighborhood is on its knees