Slow Down (feat. Sufjan Stevens)

Tarpaulin sailboats and sports cars are splayed on

Everyone's plot of suburban green rayon

This is the stuff that philosophers pray on

Dreaming

She left New York to uncover her feeling

Deep in the forest she comes to a clearing

Where spiders and frogs climb down from the ceiling

She slows down

Yeah she slows down

Well the scene on the sidewalk is grassy green terror

Everyone smiles as the summer gets fairer

She can't shake the skin off this neon unbearable sky

And they slow down

Yeah they slow down

And see the soldiers smoking cigarettes

And making bombs and placing bets

And telling tales of girls who slept beside them at home

In the clearing she takes off her skirt and her flip flops

Wades in the water it grazers her knee tops

She floats on her back, looking up at the blue drops of sky

And she slows down

Yeah she slows down

Well she falls asleep on the creek and the stillness

The spiders and frogs and the clearing bear witness

To words dropped like pearls on the water unnoticed

Just how deep they go

And she slows down

Yeah she slows down

Yeah she slows down