Painted Yellow Lines

Oh, it's dark outside

I've been trying to get a ride

While my body waits, my body waits

America, warm my face

I've been trying, to turn the page

Once I was a little boy, staring at my shoes

You came along, and found me in the chicken coop

But time takes over. I can't say when

Time takes over, may we do it again

Take me to the beachhead, let's go over

All of those rocks at the end of the road and

Take me down to main street with no clothes on

With our bare feet on the painted yellow lines

With our shadows far behind us

Broke into that summer school

And fooled around on the infirmary cot

And we can be like all those fairies

Making their rain angels in the eddies

And I have no expectation

Just an adolescent heart

Oh, it's dark outside

I've been trying to get a ride

While my body waits, my body waits

America, warm my face

I've been trying, to turn the page

Once I was a little boy, staring at my shoes

You came along and found me in the chicken coop

But time takes over, I can't say when

Time takes over, may we do it again

Take me to the beachhead, let's go over

All of those rocks, at the end of the road and

Help me down the seawall, let's find Marci

See if she got that invitation to the movie

The one where the kids break out of juvie

And then by their own admission

They go and turn themselves all in

Just as they get there to the station

The young one wheels and begs the pavement

For brother speed to make arrangements

With the spirits of the night

Take me to the race track, let's go bet on

All the one that no one expects to win and

Let's bet on the skinny horse, he will surely

Try the hardest to come in first

I'll bet you for the winner

They put on some kind of fancy dinner

Let's be like those Philadelphia sisters

That have prayed straight for a hundred years

And I have no expectation

Just to be here in the present

And behold you for a second

Before it all goes away

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

Before it all goes away

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

And those painted yellow lines

With our shadows far behind

Broke into that summer school

And fooled around on the infirmary cot

And we can be like all those fairies

Making their rain angels in the eddies

And I have no expectation

Just an adolescent heart