Stupid Mouth Shut

The sidewalk bends where your house ends

Like the neighborhood is on it's knees

Surrounded by a chain link fence

Keeps me out but lets me see

Well, I come by most every night

The shutters pounding in the breeze

A clothesline strung like paper kites

Blow my words right back at me

Back at me

But someday when my heart exhales

I'll tell you everything

These sweet words spilling all about us

I'll say, please, please, be with me

And I'll breathe so easily

But instead I'm turning blue

I look at you

And keep my stupid mouth shut

The hall light streams out through the screens

And shadows capture me in webs

Just tangled up in what I've seen

And every word I have not said

I have not said

But someday when my heart exhales

I'll tell you everything

These sweet words spilling all about us

I'll say, "Please, please, be with me"

And I'll breathe so easily

But instead I'm turning blue

I look at you

And keep my stupid mouth shut

'Cause the sidewalk bends where your house ends

Like the neighborhood is on it's knees