The Difference In The Shades

Now that it's June

We'll sleep out in the garden

And if it rains

We'll just sink into the mud

Where it is quiet

And much cooler than the house is

And there's no clocks

Or phones to wake us up

Because I have learned

That nothing is as pressing

As the one who is pressing

Would like you to believe

And I'm content

To walk a little slower

Because there's nowhere that...

I really need to be

And I find that life is easier

When it is just a blur

With no details to confuse

Who or what or where I was

So when the ending comes

The full regret will be obscure

But these are days we dream about

When the sunlight paints us gold

And this apartment could not be prettier

As we danced up there alone

And this TV's old

The color's fucked

Do you see the difference in the shades?

But the green's still close to green, my love

And I believe we are the same

And we'll stay like this, all gold and green

Light collects and projects your heart on a movie screen

And if you close your eyes we will always be

The way we were that night you crawled inside of me

And you slept in my blood

The way you sleep now

The quietest hush

Has consumed this house

And when the doctors have gone

And you sweat through the bed

With all these pictures and pills

They piled around your head

Just rest now

And in a moment you'll know everything

Was it all a dream?

It's too vague now to recount

An outline of the one you loved

In a life that was

That no longer will be

Stands above you

As you sleep