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So the wind that blows across your room

Carried cheap perfume onto your dresser

It rained for jewelry and for credit cards

Two tickets to a film I don't remember

Oh, one day you'll kiss your rabbit's nose

Pick up the phone to find "I've been turned over"

You'll grab that piece of gold

Only to find that the smell's taken over

Now all the things you have, they aren't the same

As what you hold

And I'm standing in a room that's filled with older folks

Pleading, "Baby, listen"

And I scream as loud as anyone

But when asked to make a point, I tend to whisper

Now highways turn to tidal waves

And they're asking me to export all of your insecurities

But that wind that blows across your room

Is gonna set the sail and send me back to you

Sometimes, when sailors are sailing

They think twice about where they're anchoring in

I think I could make better time of my time on land

I'll drink less, cause Lord knows I could use a

Warm kiss instead of a cold goodbye

I'm writing the folks back home to tell them

Hey, I, hey I'm doing alright

It's a shame what your father did to your brother's head

He smashed it with a telephone

And your mother got scared and locked the door

You were only four, but Lord, you remember it

So now you're scared of love

Well I'm here to tell you love just ain't some blood on the receiver

Love is speaking in code, it's an inside joke

Love is coming home

Sometimes, when sailors are sailing

They think twice about where they're anchoring in

I think I could make better time of my time on land

I'll drink less, cause Lord knows I could use a

Warm kiss instead of a cold goodbye

I'm writing the folks back home to tell them

Hey, I, hey I'm doing alright

Yeah, I'm doing just fine

And if she seems as lonely as me

Let her sing

Yeah, I'm doing alright

Yeah, I'm doing just fine

And if she seems as lonely as me

Let her sing

Let her sing

Hey!