weakened state

from the minute you saw it

by the time it left my mouth

i knew you wouldn't want it

but i had to ring it out

it only comes when you're sleeping

to kiss your eyelids and your hands

and you're dreaming of wet lips

but not this

all that time didn't pass while you were looking back waiting

i asked for the hard truth

every time

and now the ugly details

are stuck in my mind

and there's a premonition i keep putting off

and the more time passes the most i get soft

i'm standing up there in a weakened state

and it's not great

all that time

did it pass while you were lookin' back waiting?

often i'm waiting on the one that maybe won't come

waiting

and i'm not sayin; anything

you think that i forgot

'cause i'm not sayin' anything

but i'm thinkin' a lot

often i'm waiting on the one that maybe won't come

waiting

odessa nights

odessa nights out on the lawn

we sat out til the rest had gone

and we wished for a breeze

and one came on

and the doors were slamming upstairs in time to the song

the cat's in the shade

we're happy again

as long as he keeps back from the road

he's low in the tall grass

tucked down in

waiting out a mouse and a pre-hurricane wind

auspicious times that we've been having

just thinking of all this we've been given

and what we have learned

living so that life can emerge

now our nights are not spent there

we've moved at least three times since then

so i'm still getting used to the change in the air

and you know that it's happening everywhere

auspicious times that we've been having

just thinking of all this we've been given

and what we have learned

living so that life can emerge

almost gone

the memory's almost gone

histories traded in words and song

on summer lawns

auspicious times that we've been having

just thinking of all this we've been given

and what we have learned

living so that life can emerge

can emerge

coffee stain

there's a coffee stain around your eye

and lines that i don't recognize

everything changed from being ok

the night that you came home so late

and i knew by the time on the stove

that you were no longer mine alone

i guess we're all just out on loan

and everybody is only their own

oh i loved you

and i guess i still do

everything was going so good i thought something bad might happen

and then it did

if you know the difference between bad and good

thought that i'd know

but i crossed my toes

and that's how it goes

well maybe i'm a fatalist

to let it all go at this

like some balloon i'll probably miss

lost in a treetop

but there's a coffee stain around your eye

and lines that i don't recognize

everything changed from being ok

the night that you came home so late

oh, i loved you

and i guess i still do

everything was going so good i thought something bad might happen

and then it did

if you know the difference between bad and good

thought that i'd know

but i crossed my toes

and that's how it goes

i'm a mountain

how did they get that lady on tv

laughing so naturally

for a wal-mart ad

is it not as bad as i thought?

there's a woman sending poisonous mail

and they caught her

now she's sittin' in jail

while the weather station

forecasts hail from the tropics

oh, i spent the day in a shopping mall

through the biggest storm of the century

i'm a mountain

i'm a mountain like you said to be

the sportsman's got a double chin

don't listen to me in this state i'm in

saying things about people that i don't know

well it's just that way when you get hurt

and the things you need you're made to work for

you must decide if you will die or grow

oh, i spent the day in a shopping mall

through the biggest storm of the century

i'm a mountain

i'm a mountain like you said to be

oh, i spent the day in a shopping mall

through the biggest storm of the century

i'm a mountain

i'm a mountain like you said to be

i'm a mountain

i'm a mountain like you said to be