First Sight Lyrics - Picture Of The Three Of Us At The Gate To The - These United States

with her mouth making movements 

to introduce thoughts, i sat 

deafened by trust on that sofa across 

quietly calculating 

the logistics of lust, of when 

unspoken things couldn't 

happen between us, and once 

all those were done and we got 

through love, we would 

shoot through the hip, reacting 

off of the cuff, splitting 

up at the fork when the going got rough, 

with a plan 

for a point to rejoin on the road further up 

our windows thin where the ice 

carved its flowers, i would 

hold her, let the wind beat 

back those hours, and then 

standing on subway trains, clutching her dress, 

dependent 

on her balance, since the walls were useless, and while it's 

alright to hold tight, please don't try to hold on, 

cos it's a 

homerun we hit, love, cos it's going and gone 

and then the world turned so fast, 

it was astoundingly still 

and it must have been that moment 

made of midnight on the hill, right when the 

cataraxed alleycat 

spat back at the moon, throwing out 

into the night, time nine 

life times too soon [?] we had 

come such a ways, and knew just what he meant 

there's a picture of the three of us at the gate 

to the garden of eden 

you can get home, but you can't 

get in 

locks are like longing; 

an everchanging thing 

and keys are just clouds 

made of 

metal and spark 

we knew exactly who we were, and yet 

couldn't quite say who we still are 

i saw it all hapenning in one grand epic sweep, from that 

first sight that we wouldn't 

get to sleep for a week 

and generations would follow 

the course that we'd charted 

from that sofa across, 

i couldn't 

wait to get started.