the sidewalk bends where your house ends like the neighborhood is on its knees you re surrounded by a chain link fence that keeps me out but lets me see well i come by most every night the shutters pounding in the breeze a clothesline strung like paper kites that blow my words right back at me but someday when my heart exhales i ll tell you everything these sweet words spilling all about us i ll say please please be with me and i ll breathe so easily but instead i m turning blue i look at you and keep my stupid mouth shut the hall light streams out through the screens and the shadows capture me in webs just tangled up in what i ve seen and every word i have not said i have not said cuz the sidewalk bends where your house ends like the neighborhood is on its knees