C5 The story is in the soil F5 G5 Loose leaves cover the ground C5 F5 G5 There are volumes in the forest no one reads out loud E5 G5 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 C5 F5 G5 Yeah, we're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves C5 F5 G5 40 hours, television and prescription pills E5 G5 Well, I take two a day to make my brain behave It never does but who is to say, at least my doctor gets paid C5 F5 G5 So that is fine, yeah come by, we'll take the afternoon off C5 F5 G5 We can kiss and undress or if you want just talk E5 G5 'Cause I've got nothing real, just empty space to fill And you are my girl, I like your style, just imagine all the time we could kill F5 G5 E5 And time is not poison but once you drink it all you'll die E5 A5 So lets just sip it real slow, yeah, we can nurse it all night C5 Try to believe that once it's gone they will pour another round We will come back to life We'll come right back C5 F5 G5 It's all moving fast now, yeah, and that's what they say C5 F5 G5 And though some days still take forever I can't disagree E5 G5 Because it seems to me that I wake up and sleep, look in the mirror and have no idea what happened in between C5 F5 G5 But I remember counting days down until the year could be done C5 F5 G5 So I could scatter all my notebooks on the prep school lawn E5 G5 And disappear again into a summer's bliss of staying out and sleeping in and getting drunk with my friends C5 F5 G5 And that's gone and I know that it won't ever come back I accept C5 F5 G5 I won't cling to what I had in the past E5 but life is a slippery slope Regret is the steepest hill G5 Hope for the best E5 G5 Plan for the worst and maybe wind up somewhere in the middle F5 G5 And I'm not saying that I know what I want E5 A5 But I know what I don't, don't want to rot in my room and never know what C5 could have been, believe what everyone else tells me is true [Rest is C, I think] They will 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 ~Peace.
