F# C# D#m7 Our friends on the front porch telling jokes and they swing B Swiftly towards happier times F# C# D#m7 Expending lines and finding more energy for the effort and B Getting distance from that front porch spotlight F# C# D#m7 B But us we found peace in shadows long enough to see the monsters rise F# C# D#m7 Candy's got some space to fill in her daydreams living high on B Yesterday's lie F# C# D#m7 Talking to me about some 0% interest and how she got a better B Deal than the next guy D#m D#m7M D#m7 D#m6 And the way the lightning shocked us when we were lost and D#m D#m7M D#m7 Looking down that long missouri highway your hair was longer D#m6 B7 Then and now i remember F# C# D#m7 Oh the roads unencumbered by cats they're burning like wet B Matches thru my miracle mile mind F# C# D#m7 You left your thumbprint inside me now for months it seems but B Mine only brushes your soft surface F# C# D#m7 B And somehow it leaves me listless, my tongue curls under my lips Oh yes F# C# D#m7 B So i cant speak to tell you of the months before i met you D#m D#m7M D#m7 D#m6 D#m D#m7M And the way the truth it locked us right about the time after D#m7 D#m6 The lightning shocked us D#m D#m7M D#m7 D#m6 When we were young and missing D#m D#m7M D#m7 Round that small new england byway our lives they were sheltered D#m6 B7 Then and now i remember F# C# D#m7 Well its not even being about that anymore i gotta get you down B F# Those tiny fragments of perfection they please me in a time C# Unchanged when its not the same beginning D#m7 B F# Or along awaited end.. if i knew all the words i would write C# Myself out of here D#m7 B If i was all the colors i would paint you pretty in gold in a F# Picture so i'm told little sister C# D#m7 So now i'm sold little sister why don't you tell me about the B Sunsets in sweden and the laws of eden F# And how you were the rock of gibraltar and how they called you C# Foxy D#m7 B Well that's another whole box of pandoras, that's another whole Box of them ties F# C# Slide your foot off the gas before we crash right back into the D#m7 B Median F# C# D#m7 B It separates our house from the middle of the street.. talking About our house F# C# D#m7 Is on the front porch telling jokes and they swing swiftly B Towards happier times F# C# D#m7 Expending lines and finding more energy for the effort and B Getting distance from that front porch spotlight F# C# D#m7 B But us we found peace in shadows long enough to see a monster Die. F# C# D#m7 We all need to find a little space in our daydreams long enough B And just so long. F# C# D#m7 Long enough, just as long, just so long as its long enough is it B Long enough? F# C# D#m7 B Is it long enough for me? long enough for me to chew on. F# C# D#m7 B 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.