5 Years Lyrics - Singles - Lowell Thompson

He mumbles to him, fumbles the meaning 

Down at the tent of fragile and clinging 

To life as the light of a streetlight in ember 

Shines on the features he's trying to hide 

He stumbles and he stutters and stares at the shutters 

They're green as the wisdom he tries to reclaim 

All of the meaning the moment is fleeting 

He wrestles his terror and boldly he says 

Are you like me? 

Are you; I mean 

Do you like me as more than a friend? 

Silence is torture to boys on a porch 

Watching rocking chairs rocked by the ghost of the wind 

There's a look in his eye and its blank 

Like when men walk the plank 

Only one step to go and there's no way it's safe 

Now he's holding his face and slowly approaching 

He starts retreating, it's a pause just in case 

Then the other he dives into the deep end 

And deepens the reasons they'll remember the day 

So he likes him 

Now they are We 

Clearly they are more than friends 

5 years down the road, about 20 years old 

And they both wear a ring as an honest promise 

Then late one evening while walking on home 

And talking to love on a cellular phone 

4 men approach him with chains and a pipe 

They scream epitaphs cause he wont put up a fight 

2 weeks in a coma before he succumbs 

To the injuries suffered under warm April sun 

See he loved him 

And they were We 

Why couldn't they leave them alone? 

Some hes like hes 

Some shes like shes 

Why can't we all leave them alone?