Tom: F F C Dm7 Our friends on the front porch telling jokes and they swing A# Swiftly towards happier times F C Dm7 Expending lines and finding more energy for the effort and A# Getting distance from that front porch spotlight F C Dm7 A# But us we found peace in shadows long enough to see the monsters rise F C Dm7 Candy's got some space to fill in her daydreams living high on A# Yesterday's lie F C Dm7 Talking to me about some 0% interest and how she got a better A# Deal than the next guy Dm Dm7+ Dm7 Dm6 And the way the lightning shocked us when we were lost and Dm Dm7+ Dm7 Looking down that long missouri highway your hair was longer Dm6 Bb7 Then and now i remember F C Dm7 Oh the roads unencumbered by cats they're burning like wet A# Matches thru my miracle mile mind F C Dm7 You left your thumbprint inside me now for months it seems but A# Mine only brushes your soft surface F C Dm7 A# And somehow it leaves me listless, my tongue curls under my lips Oh yes F C Dm7 A# So i cant speak to tell you of the months before i met you Dm Dm7+ Dm7 Dm6 Dm Dm7+ And the way the truth it locked us right about the time after Dm7 Dm6 The lightning shocked us Dm Dm7+ Dm7 Dm6 When we were young and missing Dm Dm7+ Dm7 Round that small new england byway our lives they were sheltered Dm6 Bb7 Then and now i remember F C Dm7 Well its not even being about that anymore i gotta get you down A# F Those tiny fragments of perfection they please me in a time C Unchanged when its not the same beginning Dm7 A# F Or along awaited end.. if i knew all the words i would write C Myself out of here Dm7 A# If i was all the colors i would paint you pretty in gold in a F Picture so i'm told little sister C Dm7 So now i'm sold little sister why don't you tell me about the A# Sunsets in sweden and the laws of eden F And how you were the rock of gibraltar and how they called you C Foxy Dm7 A# Well that's another whole box of pandoras, that's another whole Box of them ties F C Slide your foot off the gas before we crash right back into the Dm7 A# Median F C Dm7 A# It separates our house from the middle of the street.. talking About our house F C Dm7 Is on the front porch telling jokes and they swing swiftly A# Towards happier times F C Dm7 Expending lines and finding more energy for the effort and A# Getting distance from that front porch spotlight F C Dm7 A# But us we found peace in shadows long enough to see a monster Die. F C Dm7 We all need to find a little space in our daydreams long enough A# And just so long. F C Dm7 Long enough, just as long, just so long as its long enough is it A# Long enough? F C Dm7 A# Is it long enough for me? long enough for me to chew on. F C Dm7 A# If it isn't.. if it is't .. if it is't .. if it ain't if it don't if it can't Then it wont.