I sit two stories above the street   It's awful quiet here since love fell asleep   There's life down below me though   The kids are walking home from school      Some long ago when we were taught   That for whatever kind of puzzle you got   You just stick the right formula in   A solution for every fool      I remember the time when I came so close to you   Sent me skipping my class and running from school   And I bought you that ring 'cause I never was cool      What makes me think I could start clean slated?   The hardest to learn was the least complicated      Oh I just sit up in the house and resist   And not be seen until I cease to exist   A kind of conscientious objection   A kind of dodging the draft      The boy and girl are holding hands on the street   And I don't want to but I think you just wait   It's more than just eye to eye   Learn the things I could never apply      I remember the time when I came so close with you   I let everything go it seemed the only truth   And I bought you that ring, it seemed the thing to do      What makes me think I could start clean slated?   The hardest to learn was the least complicated   So what makes me think I could start clean slated?   The hardest to learn was the least complicated      I'm just a mirror of, a mirror of myself   All the things that I do   And the next time I fall I'm gonna have to recall   It isn't love, it's only something new      I sit two stories above the street   It's awful quiet here since love fell asleep   There's life down below me though   The kids are walking home from school      I remember the time when I came so close with you   Sent me skipping my class and running from school   And I bought you that ring 'cause I never was cool      What makes me think I could start clean slated?   The hardest to learn was the least complicated   So what makes me think I could start clean slated?   The hardest to learn was the least complicated   The least complicated   The least complicated