Stupid Mouth Shut Lyrics

The sidewalk bends where your house ends
Like the neighborhood is on its knees
Surrounded by a chain-link fence
Keeps me out but lets me see
Well, I come by most every night
shutters pounding in the breeze
A clothesline strung like paper kites
Blow my words right back at me

Someday when my heart exhales
I'll tell you everything
The sweet words spilling all about us
I'll say please, please, be with me
And, I'll breathe so easily
But, instead I'm turning blue
I look at you
And, keep my stupid mouth shut
The hall light streams out through the screens
And shadows capture me in webs
Just tangled up in what I've seen
And every word I have not said
I have not said
Someday when my heart exhales
I'll tell you everything
The sweet words spilling all about us
I'll say please, please, be with me
And, I'll breathe so easily
But, instead I'm turning blue
I look at you
And, keep my stupid mouth shut

'Cause the sidewalk bends where your house ends
Like the neighborhood is on its knees