Loose Leaves

The story's in the soil Loose leaves cover the ground There are volumes in the forest no one reads out loud If I could take them down, off of that mountain shelf We used to climb but no one tries to go up that far now Yeah, we're all too busy working Entertaining ourselves 40 hours, television, and prescription pills Well, I take two a day to make my brain behave It never does, but who's to say? At least my doctor gets paid So that is fine, yeah, come by We'll take the afternoon off We can kiss and undress Or if you want, just talk Because I have got nothing real Just empty space to fill And you're my girl, I like your style Just imagine all the time we could kill And time's not poison But once you drink it all, you'll die So let's just sip it real slow Yeah, we can nurse it all night Try to believe that once it's gone They'll pour another round, we'll come back to life Yeah, we'll come right back... It's all moving fast now, yeah And that's what they say And though some days still take forever I can't disagree Because it seems to me That I wake up and sleep Look in the mirror and have no idea What happened in-between But I remember counting days down Until the year could be done So I could scatter all my notebooks on the prep school lawn And disappear into a summer's bliss Of staying out and sleeping in And getting drunk with my friends And that's gone and I know That it won't ever come back I accept, I won't cling to what I had in the past But life is a slippery slope Regret the steepest hill Hope for the best, plan for the worst And maybe wind up somewhere in the middle And I'm not saying that I know what I want But I know what I don't Don't want to rot in my room And never know what could have been Believe what everyone else tells me is true... Yeah, what they'll say; "True!" That is what they'll say That's it Believe what everyone else tells me is true They will say: "True!" That is what they'll say That's it... --- Loose Leaves - Bright Eyes