(Dan Messe)



The sidewalk bends where your house ends

Like the neighborhood is on its knees

You're surrounded by a chain-link fence

That 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

That blow my words right 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 the shadows capture me in webs

Just tangled up in what I've seen

And every word I have not said

I have not said



Cuz the sidewalk bends where your house ends