I’ve chosen to remember you exactly as you are   If looks could be pickled and stored in a jar   1997 trapped inside a conversation   That party was so loud I felt like an abbreviation of myself      Finally got around to vacating the nest   But my knowledge of survival was pedestrian at best   Now I’m holding down a job penning poems by the kilo   Our guest is dressed by hand-me-down, hair designed by pillow      Tie shoes in bows   Walk tall in those      Don’t start counting your pennies, the night is but a pup   There’s things happening above you, you must remember to look up   And you will marvel at how it’s so easy to forget   A moon that hung so bright you could’ve lit your cigarette      The light that it throws   Smash through windows      We’re singing words, the meaning’s long forgotten   Corroded over time   The air’s so thick you’d swear you’re breathing cotton   Assuming your own nom de plume   Invite someone back to your room      The light that it throws   Smash through windows      We’re singing words, the meaning’s long forgotten   Corroded over time   The air’s so thick you’d swear you’re breathing cotton   You’re falling down on mine      We’re all singing words, the meaning’s long forgotten   So every person and their spouse   Lay entwined throughout the house      While meanwhile on another couch   I’ve the pleasure of finding out   The difference between north and south   The mechanical moving mouth      He said “These are my principles   If you don’t like them I got others   This is my opinion   If you don’t agree I’ve got big brothers”