Our friends on the front porch, telling jokes   And they swing swiftly towards happier times   Expending lines and finding more energy for the effort   And getting distance from that front porch spotlight      But us, we found peace in shadows   Long enough to see the monsters rise   Candy's got some space to fill in her daydreams   Living high on yesterday's lie      Talking to me about some 0% interest   And how she got a better deal than the next guy   And the way the lightning shocked us   When we were lost   And looking down that long Missouri highway      Your hair was longer then and now I remember   Oh, the roads unencumbered by cats   They're burning like wet matches   Through my miracle mile mind      You left your thumbprint inside me   Now for months it seems   But mine only brushes your soft surface   And somehow it leaves me listless      My tongue curls under my lips, oh yes   So I can't speak to tell you of the months before I met you   And the way the truth, it locked us   Right about the time after the lightning shocked us      When we were young and missing   Round that small New England byway   Our lives they were sheltered then and I now I remember   Well it's not even being about that anymore      I gotta get you down   Those tiny fragments of perfection   They please me in a time unchanged   When it's not the same beginning   Or along awaited end      If I knew all the words   I would write myself out of here   If I was all the colors   I would paint you pretty in gold in a picture   So I'm told, little sister   So now I'm sold, little sister      Why don't you tell me about   The sunsets in Sweden   And the laws of Eden   And how you were the Rock of Gibraltar   And how they called you Foxy      Well that's another whole box of Pandora's   That's another whole box of them ties   Slide your foot off the gas   Before we crash right back into the median      It separates our house from the middle of the street   Talking about our house is on the front porch   Telling jokes and they swing swiftly towards happier times   Expending lines and finding more energy for the effort      And getting distance from that front porch spotlight   But us we found peace in shadows   Long enough to see a monster die   We all need to find a little space in our daydreams      Long enough and just so long   Long enough, just as long, just so long   As it's long enough, is it long enough?   Is it long enough for me? Long enough for me to chew on      If it isn't, if it isn't, if it ain't, if it don't, if it can't then it won't   And that's just the way that it goes