so we stood just a little bit closer/ & it crawled up a little too near/ still I'm learning to live with your outbursts/ & you're learning to live with my fears/ & as time marched a little bit quicker/ I grew up just a little too fast/ so we're learning to live now as outcasts/ we are living in time with the past.

(chorus) tell me, where will you take me tomorrow?/ you can tell me. I don't think you know./ cause you don't like the touch & sometimes you won't talk/ & you sure as hell can't stand the dancing/ but if I could be wrapped up (wrapped up)/ in a clumsy waltz with you/ cause we both got something else coming/ & I can teach you to tango too.

you said, "I never said I was a genius/ but I do think I'm misunderstood"/ so I tried my best to comprehend you/ but I never did all that I could/ & now as we stand here in this moment/ life the only thing we can't survive/ I realize you're an easier person/ to love dead than to love while alive. (chorus)

clouds on the uptake crazy skies/ cows out to pasture in your eyes/ the jukebox is shaking in a corner café/ & the waltz is beginning/ I dream every night in my day like...

pulling up at an all-night oasis/ off the highway of plastic & chrome/ & you're dozens of exits from anything/ & you're hundreds of miles from home/ there's a face on a runaway poster/ as you pay for your gas all alone/ & as you look a little bit closer/ you realize that it's your own.

because nothing can save us now, darling/ you know nothing can save us, my dear/ won't you dance just a little bit slower?/ won't you love while we're still waiting here?/ because life is a glimpse of a billboard/ or a song that you just can't forget/ & death is a rube at a carnival/ who we cheat every chance that we get. (chorus)

first my left foot then my right/ first the truth & then the light/ last my vision, first my sight/ take my left foot & my right...

Copyright (c) 2000 by Beth Kinderman. This is my original work, so please respect it.