Olive, NY

We found a house we can afford
It's in Olive, New York
There's a life that we could lead
Garden plots and chosen poverty

Sky
Above our lives
Sky
Above our lives

Three bedrooms with a small porch
A walk to the reservoir, a perch in the cedars
But too far from anyone we know
And we're already so lonely
I stare at the star card, wincing

Morning glories wrapped along the railing
American dreaming, American fiending
Each day we tell ourselvеs
"This is it, we're living, I love you"

It's all tеmporary, the myth of temporality
I part my hair in the middle now like my mother did in the ‘70s
If I could stand in the night, dig my bare feet in the grass
With only the sky to know me

Sky
Above our lives
Sky
Above our lives
Sky
Above our lives
Sky
Above our lives

We can't, we shouldn't
We can't, we shouldn't
In my dreams I'm lost, I'm trespassing
Screaming at politicians
Staring at mansions underwater
Standing in houses without ceilings

Ear on your chest, I rest
We watch our cat watch the snow
Will the day to slow
Will to be whole