we packed up a car i don t know whose it was with blankets and beers we stopped for gas and chocolate bars we got lost we got found and out sorrows we drowned in rockaway in rockaway the radio broke so we sang songs instead a girl i didn t know with a copper bracelet put her hand in my hand oh but hands lead and lead away if only nightbirds could stay in rockaway in rockaway we sat on the shore and stripped down to our kin and ran to the sea the water was cold but she went in so i did in that space between dusk and dawn you don t always know which side of a dream you re on in rockaway in rockaway the tide starts creeping in taking what it will wood and rocks and bones returned to the world below after breakfast we slept until late afternoon all over the house and in the front lawn all of the neighbors were gone and somewhere in my sleep i knew there was nothing i could keep in rockaway in rockaway some friends i have known for as long s we ve grown like blackberry vines taking over the earth from the side of the road tangled up in fruits and thorns where rabbits ran and deer lock horns in rockaway in rockaway