Garden Song

Someday I’m gonna live in your house up on the hill

And when your skinhead neighbor goes missing

I’ll plant a garden in the yard then

They’re gluing roses on a flatbed

You should see it, I mean thousands

I grew up here till it all went up in flames

Except the notches in the doorframe

I don’t know when you got taller

See our reflection in the water

Off a bridge at the Huntington

I hopped the fence when I was seventeen

Then I knew what I wanted

When I grow up I’m gonna look up from my phone and see my life

And it’s gonna be just like my recurring dream

I’m at the movies

I don’t remember what I’m seeing

The screen turns in to a tidal wave

Then it’s a dorm room like a hedge maze and when I find you

You touch my leg and I insist

But I wake up before we do it

I don’t how but I’m taller

It must be something in the water

Everything’s growing in our garden

You don’t have to know that it’s haunted

The doctor put her hands over my liver

She told me my resentment’s getting smaller

No I’m not afraid of hard work

I get everything I want

I have everything I wanted