Shirley Road Shirley - A Weather

Didn't I tell you that it's lonely out there

Didn't I lie so much and pretty darn well

It's not that I don't trust you but I have to check for myself

I have to tape all the windows when the wind gets rough

God had a plan for what happened to me

Knowing that I'm waiting here to see

If things might still turn out alright finally

Maybe I'll ruin all the good in my life

Holding you against me like a slide to the light

I'm resting my head on the passenger glass

I'm rolling on the ground to scratch an unreachable back

God had a plan for what happened to us

Knowing the hairs on our arms and the dust

Collecting on unused glasses and cups

And I can see the change it made in your face

The slow dissolve from black to gray

The weird delay between

The things you think and the things you say

You're petering out I'm petered away

I just want to lay down with you

I won't try anything I swear

You won't even know I'm there

I'm not taking my chances so I'm counting out loud

Nothing worse than missing simple trees going by

Every new day is hard in a very new way

Every good day is good in its very own way

Shirley road shirley you treated me fine

Counting the hundreds of faded white lines

I'm silent and green like a blank highway sign

Suddenly you smell like winter apples

And the same ways that

Make you ripe will make you decay

And I can hear the worry in your voice

The quiet blame you point away

The hidden name beneath

The things you think and the things you say

They're petering out and you will remain

I just want to lay down with you

I won't try anything I swear

You won't even know I'm there