it was probably nothing but for a moment there i lost all sense of feeling

It starts with your body in motion through
The still cool water of a hotel pool
You were the most beautiful thing
That I'd ever seen
In a lifetime of suburban hauntings
And strip mall therapy

There are two things that
Could still come between
The smell of vinegar and burning leaves
Like one of those kit'schy finger traps
I know it's killing me and
I keep coming back
Through collapsing midwest towns concerned
With factory farming, prison labor
Ten thousand dying birds
And now that I've finally
Got the punchline right
Suddenly the joke's not funny from
The stage at night

The quiet war I've lost so many timеs
Nightmares of sleeping pills and clonidine
My lawyer calls whеn I am driving home
Collection notices from the hospital

I fell in love with you
The first time in spring
So it's only right we're leaving now
The leaves have changed
And when I hear someone near
Me calling out your name
I turn around like nothing's changed