We were kids once, in the good days When you kissed me, in a public place
And an old face, screwed up in anger said
Get a room, there were horses in the pasture
In our last days of disaster
And I asked you, to sit with me a while
And watch them run, something wild
We were kids once, in a public place
And we gotta build fences around it
Why do we do that?
Something wild
Why can't we leave the way that we found it?
Why do we do that to love?
Why did we do that to us?
I was crazy about Jesus
Like a Tom Petty song about freedom
Like oxygen, an amazing grace
Was some secret affair
And then somehow I was older
Every Sunday, more respectable
Folded hands in my lap
And put in my place
Something wild
We gotta build fences around it
Why do we do that?
Why did they do that?
Something wild
Why can't they leave the way that they found it?
Why did they do that to us?


Why did they do that to us?
Why did they do that?
I let them do that every time
I get bigger, I cut back
I'll be thinner every year
I grow taller, I hang back
I'll be smaller, duck my head
Cross my legs
Oh, I wanna bloom like a weed in the grass
That nobody can see
I could kill
Something wild
We gotta build fences around it
Why do we do that?
Why do I do that?
Something wild
Wild
Wild
Why do I go so quietly?
Why do I do that to me?
Why do I do that?
Why do we do that?
Why do we do that to me?
Why do we do that to me?