B F# G#m7 Our friends on the front porch telling jokes and they swing E Swiftly towards happier times B F# G#m7 Expending lines and finding more energy for the effort and E Getting distance from that front porch spotlight B F# G#m7 E But us we found peace in shadows long enough to see the monsters rise B F# G#m7 Candy's got some space to fill in her daydreams living high on E Yesterday's lie B F# G#m7 Talking to me about some 0% interest and how she got a better E Deal than the next guy G#m G#m7M G#m7 G#m6 And the way the lightning shocked us when we were lost and G#m G#m7M G#m7 Looking down that long missouri highway your hair was longer G#m6 E7 Then and now i remember B F# G#m7 Oh the roads unencumbered by cats they're burning like wet E Matches thru my miracle mile mind B F# G#m7 You left your thumbprint inside me now for months it seems but E Mine only brushes your soft surface B F# G#m7 E And somehow it leaves me listless, my tongue curls under my lips Oh yes B F# G#m7 E So i cant speak to tell you of the months before i met you G#m G#m7M G#m7 G#m6 G#m G#m7M And the way the truth it locked us right about the time after G#m7 G#m6 The lightning shocked us G#m G#m7M G#m7 G#m6 When we were young and missing G#m G#m7M G#m7 Round that small new england byway our lives they were sheltered G#m6 E7 Then and now i remember B F# G#m7 Well its not even being about that anymore i gotta get you down E B Those tiny fragments of perfection they please me in a time F# Unchanged when its not the same beginning G#m7 E B Or along awaited end.. if i knew all the words i would write F# Myself out of here G#m7 E If i was all the colors i would paint you pretty in gold in a B Picture so i'm told little sister F# G#m7 So now i'm sold little sister why don't you tell me about the E Sunsets in sweden and the laws of eden B And how you were the rock of gibraltar and how they called you F# Foxy G#m7 E Well that's another whole box of pandoras, that's another whole Box of them ties B F# Slide your foot off the gas before we crash right back into the G#m7 E Median B F# G#m7 E It separates our house from the middle of the street.. talking About our house B F# G#m7 Is on the front porch telling jokes and they swing swiftly E Towards happier times B F# G#m7 Expending lines and finding more energy for the effort and E Getting distance from that front porch spotlight B F# G#m7 E But us we found peace in shadows long enough to see a monster Die. B F# G#m7 We all need to find a little space in our daydreams long enough E And just so long. B F# G#m7 Long enough, just as long, just so long as its long enough is it E Long enough? B F# G#m7 E Is it long enough for me? long enough for me to chew on. B F# G#m7 E If it isn't.. if it is't .. if it is't .. if it ain't if it don't if it can't Then it wont.