and she said i like the way it is oh out here in california some day i'll find my way think twice and let it sink in like a note with a photograph that makes you wanna stay who would've guessed that a poet and a jewel would end up a liar and a tool no one's expecting much at all and i need to be alone with words that you will never know inside she's burning and farther down keep spinning in circles so kiss me now and i will tell you and i break at the sound of the morning the sound's so alarming to hear maybe life is not so bad in another time would you still call my name cause i can't hear you i can't stop holding your grudge now its what i'm not part of your falling out all this time we settle for less