I'll tell you in street intersections 'Cause they give you a place to go Give meanings to lines on maps And tell you how you're gonna to get home Now I'm back here in the Midwest Where everything's familiar and sincere And everything's external Nothing just happened to you here In between coasts
Looking for what it was you lost on 2nd street Forgot what it was on Washington And you let it go, you let it go, you let it go Because you know that map book's long gone We're still in town, now isn't that fun? Yeah, isn't that fun?
Now I know there's been some hard times And I don't mean you and me You're over believing', back to forgettin' And you're turning on TV And what you see just makes you numb And the headlines all become a blur And the years and the lies scroll by n the bottom of that screen, like desert sand And we're entrenched in a mess Embedded in our beds, sleepin' in What I wouldn't give to want to live like I once did
Looking for what you lost on 2nd street Starin' through the windows of my friends And I can see all their loveliness Imagining all the clocks ticking and Big black clouds over their heads And we're waitin' for the hesitation to end
This town is way too small To ever need the bus So meet me at the pool That they keep unlocked all night For us