Last night I was looking for some romance I went to a square dance feeling like a circle But did you see my mom last night? She was so dang pretty
I ended up in a corn field, Skeeters on my toe nails ‘Til the cows came back from their bleeding Did you see my dad last night? He was so dang witty
And love scares me Like chandeliers Pretty shards of glass To clean my ears
Hanging from a single wire Waiting for the plaster to crack Hanging from a single wire Waiting for the plaster to crack Hanging from a single, hanging from a single, single...
I'm always dumbing up the smart things And smarting up the dumb things And knottin' up my shoe strings And messing up the good things But did you see the stars last night? Punctuation for a perfect poem and
Tearin' down your walls But I'm building up my walls So no one knows no nothing, No one knows no nothing Did you see God last night? An eighty-year-old on a red tricycle
I built the earth, I love you Goddammit—I mean gosh darn I built the earth, above you Goddamn, gosh darn
And you can't take this away You can't take this away You can't take this away
And love scares me Like chandeliers Pretty shards of glass To clean my ears
Hanging from a single wire Waiting for the plaster to crack Hanging from a single wire Waiting for the plaster to crack Hanging from a single, hanging from a single, single...