C# G# A#m7 Our friends on the front porch telling jokes and they swing F# Swiftly towards happier times C# G# A#m7 Expending lines and finding more energy for the effort and F# Getting distance from that front porch spotlight C# G# A#m7 F# But us we found peace in shadows long enough to see the monsters rise C# G# A#m7 Candy's got some space to fill in her daydreams living high on F# Yesterday's lie C# G# A#m7 Talking to me about some 0% interest and how she got a better F# Deal than the next guy A#m A#m7M A#m7 A#m6 And the way the lightning shocked us when we were lost and A#m A#m7M A#m7 Looking down that long missouri highway your hair was longer A#m6 F#7 Then and now i remember C# G# A#m7 Oh the roads unencumbered by cats they're burning like wet F# Matches thru my miracle mile mind C# G# A#m7 You left your thumbprint inside me now for months it seems but F# Mine only brushes your soft surface C# G# A#m7 F# And somehow it leaves me listless, my tongue curls under my lips Oh yes C# G# A#m7 F# So i cant speak to tell you of the months before i met you A#m A#m7M A#m7 A#m6 A#m A#m7M And the way the truth it locked us right about the time after A#m7 A#m6 The lightning shocked us A#m A#m7M A#m7 A#m6 When we were young and missing A#m A#m7M A#m7 Round that small new england byway our lives they were sheltered A#m6 F#7 Then and now i remember C# G# A#m7 Well its not even being about that anymore i gotta get you down F# C# Those tiny fragments of perfection they please me in a time G# Unchanged when its not the same beginning A#m7 F# C# Or along awaited end.. if i knew all the words i would write G# Myself out of here A#m7 F# If i was all the colors i would paint you pretty in gold in a C# Picture so i'm told little sister G# A#m7 So now i'm sold little sister why don't you tell me about the F# Sunsets in sweden and the laws of eden C# And how you were the rock of gibraltar and how they called you G# Foxy A#m7 F# Well that's another whole box of pandoras, that's another whole Box of them ties C# G# Slide your foot off the gas before we crash right back into the A#m7 F# Median C# G# A#m7 F# It separates our house from the middle of the street.. talking About our house C# G# A#m7 Is on the front porch telling jokes and they swing swiftly F# Towards happier times C# G# A#m7 Expending lines and finding more energy for the effort and F# Getting distance from that front porch spotlight C# G# A#m7 F# But us we found peace in shadows long enough to see a monster Die. C# G# A#m7 We all need to find a little space in our daydreams long enough F# And just so long. C# G# A#m7 Long enough, just as long, just so long as its long enough is it F# Long enough? C# G# A#m7 F# Is it long enough for me? long enough for me to chew on. C# G# A#m7 F# 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.