Zero Percent

Our friends on the front porch telling jokes

And they swing swiftly towards happier times

Expending lines and finding more energy for the effort

And getting distance from that front porch spotlight

But us we found peace in shadows

Long enough to see the monsters rise

Candy's got some space to fill in her daydreams

Living high on yesterday's lie

Talking to me about some 0% interest

And how she got a better deal than the next guy

And the way the lightning shocked us

When we were lost

And looking down that long Missouri highway

Your hair was longer then and now I remember

Oh the roads unencumbered by cats

They're burning like wet matches

Thru my miracle mile mind

You left your thumbprint inside me

Now for months it seems

But mine only brushes your soft surface

And somehow it leaves me listless,

My tongue curls under my lips oh yes

So I can't speak to tell you of the months before I met you

And the way the truth it locked us

Right about the time after the lightning shocked us

When we were young and missing

Round that small New England byway

Our lives they were sheltered then and I now I remember

Well it's not even being about that anymore

I gotta get you down

Those tiny fragments of perfection

They please me in a time unchanged

When it's not the same beginning

Or along awaited end.

If I knew all the words

I would write myself out of here

If I was all the colors

I would paint you pretty in gold in a picture

So I'm told little sister

So now I'm sold little sister

Why don't you tell me about

The sunsets in Sweden

And the laws of Eden

And how you were the Rock of Gibraltar

And how they called you Foxy

Well that's another whole box of Pandora's,

That's another whole box of them ties

Slide your foot off the gas

Before we crash right back into the median

It separates our house from the middle of the street...

Talking about our house is on the front porch

Telling jokes and they swing swiftly towards happier times

Expending lines and finding more energy for the effort

And getting distance from that front porch spotlight

But us we found peace in shadows

Long enough to see a monster die.

We all need to find a little space in our daydreams

Long enough and just so long.

Long enough, just as long, just so long

Ss its long enough is it long enough?

Is it long enough for me? Long enough for me to chew on.

If it isn't, if it isn't, if it ain't, if it don't, if it can't, then it won't

And that's just the way that it goes