through the wall in a soft spring rustle street side selling some summer hustle across the maple street bridge in a bristling fall just whistling all s a balled up riddle just a high snowball on a curve and fall through a parking lot at christmas i heard her whisper i heard him call here s what the gist was only wary in our lives open eyed and half ashamed that is to say afloat on a ferry freezing tired fully wired a total waste that s where the spirit left us underneath the house just like a flame out teen who smells like sweat and gasoline and when you get hard and your eyes get mean cause you re on the march well i could almost kiss you don t let them twist you here have this song you can take it with you stay lonely open wide your eyes on fire your mind aflame don t be disgraced loose of limb unlionized while all liars fade to gray i know you feel detested  did a silence drop did your walkman stop did the air turn cold was the message just so close ah but did you choke it oh kid i know i know where this is going because we always blow it only wary in our lives open eyed and half ashamed it s just that way afloat down that river freezing tired fully wired a total waste that s where the spirit left us only wary in our lives your eyes all fire your mind aflame and don t be dismayed when this sobbing world goes screaming by i swear that if i had my way you know i would have blessed it