D# A# Cm7 Our friends on the front porch telling jokes and they swing G# Swiftly towards happier times D# A# Cm7 Expending lines and finding more energy for the effort and G# Getting distance from that front porch spotlight D# A# Cm7 G# But us we found peace in shadows long enough to see the monsters rise D# A# Cm7 Candy's got some space to fill in her daydreams living high on G# Yesterday's lie D# A# Cm7 Talking to me about some 0% interest and how she got a better G# Deal than the next guy Cm Cm7M Cm7 Cm6 And the way the lightning shocked us when we were lost and Cm Cm7M Cm7 Looking down that long missouri highway your hair was longer Cm6 G#7 Then and now i remember D# A# Cm7 Oh the roads unencumbered by cats they're burning like wet G# Matches thru my miracle mile mind D# A# Cm7 You left your thumbprint inside me now for months it seems but G# Mine only brushes your soft surface D# A# Cm7 G# And somehow it leaves me listless, my tongue curls under my lips Oh yes D# A# Cm7 G# So i cant speak to tell you of the months before i met you Cm Cm7M Cm7 Cm6 Cm Cm7M And the way the truth it locked us right about the time after Cm7 Cm6 The lightning shocked us Cm Cm7M Cm7 Cm6 When we were young and missing Cm Cm7M Cm7 Round that small new england byway our lives they were sheltered Cm6 G#7 Then and now i remember D# A# Cm7 Well its not even being about that anymore i gotta get you down G# D# Those tiny fragments of perfection they please me in a time A# Unchanged when its not the same beginning Cm7 G# D# Or along awaited end.. if i knew all the words i would write A# Myself out of here Cm7 G# If i was all the colors i would paint you pretty in gold in a D# Picture so i'm told little sister A# Cm7 So now i'm sold little sister why don't you tell me about the G# Sunsets in sweden and the laws of eden D# And how you were the rock of gibraltar and how they called you A# Foxy Cm7 G# Well that's another whole box of pandoras, that's another whole Box of them ties D# A# Slide your foot off the gas before we crash right back into the Cm7 G# Median D# A# Cm7 G# It separates our house from the middle of the street.. talking About our house D# A# Cm7 Is on the front porch telling jokes and they swing swiftly G# Towards happier times D# A# Cm7 Expending lines and finding more energy for the effort and G# Getting distance from that front porch spotlight D# A# Cm7 G# But us we found peace in shadows long enough to see a monster Die. D# A# Cm7 We all need to find a little space in our daydreams long enough G# And just so long. D# A# Cm7 Long enough, just as long, just so long as its long enough is it G# Long enough? D# A# Cm7 G# Is it long enough for me? long enough for me to chew on. D# A# Cm7 G# 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.