The Promise Ring

My Life Is At Home

The Promise Ring


At the top of the world 
There is a half-year sun 
The water's all froze 
And one thousand men old 
On the side of the hill 
There are no wanting eyes 
But you're a spectacle a spinning doll 
Now the hour is fading but ours is staying 
Its all syncopated to your heart's hard heartbeat time 
You may never miss a sign 

At the base of your skull 
I've got a place there still 
All my clothes spread out aI was just thinking most of last Wednesday 
I hope we're together from here until Doomsday 
We could be each other's arms 
Keep each other free from harm 
Because when it's all stripped to the bone 
My life is at home 

Spring cleaning's coming as we lose the cold weather 
Put away your long johns and all your thick sweaters 
We'll cut off all our winter hair 
Sit out on the lawn chairs 
As the sun forgets that we're here 
We forget our career 

All the lukewarm weeks at sixty degrees 
We're hoping it's humid show our summer knees 
Once in a lifetime once in a while the sun will shine on me 
Thursday I'm leaving skip town I'm running 
It's cars and new faces and jokes that aren't funny 
But we laugh at them anyway 
I'd do anything just to kill the day 
No matter how far that I go I'm not so far away 
All the lukewarm weeks at sixty degrees 
We're hoping it's humid show our summer knees 
Once in a lifetime once in a while the sun will shine on me 
All the humid nights parked under streetlights 
My baby's riding shotgun in her knee high tights 
She looks like heaven I feel like the devil 
In my Sunday whites 

As I slowly better my craft 
I'm still a ghost of my better half 
Cos once in awhile the sun shines on me 
In a permanent row 

Now the hour is fading but ours is staying 
It's all syncopated to your hearts hard heartbeat time 
We will never not get together 
We will never not get too old 
The water's all frozen one 

And I've got a place there still 
And we will not get too old