
Now vs. Forever
In a just few minutes
Your marathon breath will finally settle into mile times
I’ll watch your dreams moving
Your head is forest
And the creatures there don’t run in straight lines
In a just few hours, you’ll text all your friends
And as you shower I’ll get texting mine
And with our eyes heavy
I’ll rub out the sleep
To see your bedroom in the light for the first time
The first time
CHORUS
When can I see you again?
I’m hoping it won’t be a while
And maybe days later, a fortnight or something
Hey, wait, we might be onto something here
With all our sense-makings
Our words are a prison
And we’re not in the business
But more in lightning storms
And John Williams scores
We’re nowhere near as clever as our student debt suggests, yet
CHORUS
When can I see you again?
I’m hoping it won’t be a while
I’m walking home in your clothes
Borrowing your old shirt
And your poorly hid smile
In a few weeks scratch our names on
To the side of some state highway
And like those autographs
There’s no promise this will last
Can’t predict the future
Can’t rely on past but
Now is not forever
So don’t think about forever
Right now
When can I see you again?
Hoping it won’t be a while
I’m walking home in your clothes
Borrowing your old shirt
Right now the sun’s rising
I really should sleep
Though any dream would disappoint me, dear
Blinking in My Bedroom
The wind shook me awake and told me everything
But I forgot by the morning
So now I drive with windows down
I pull a kite through the center of town
I keep trying but I can’t trust my memories
Only things that I’ve been through
And I mix up all I believe
With all I hope is true
So if you need me I’ll be
Out on my hometown streets
Looking for the breeze
Are you like me...?
Spend every hour in search of a story
Some home, some diet to maybe restore me
I was every prairie highway
Now I’m waiting in the car
Now I’m blinking in my bedroom
Can you see from where you are?
There are moments we lose
I mean the tiny ones
The parley after the punch-up
(We fought here!)
I like to think they’re a kind of bruise
And to forget isn’t something we choose
Little buttons made of black and blue
We could use as rehearsal cues
Give a name to things that we’ve been through
Til the day they paddle out from shore
And they slip underneath the skin
And the story starts to your chagrin
I’m sorry but I don’t know where to begin
I spend every hour in search of a story
Some home, some diet to maybe restore me
There was light and there was shadow
I was bright and fully charged
Now I’m blinking in my bedroom
Can you see from where you are?
There’s who we are and who we want to be
Our happiness is a gauge of the gap between
Wait on a savior who knows what we looked like
When all our pieces fit right
But maybe
Could we be happy how we are?
Even if that’s just as hard
Spend every hour in search of a story
Some home some diet to maybe restore me
I was every prairie highway
Now I’m waiting in the car
Now I’m blinking in my bedroom
Can you see from where you are?
Can you see from where you are?