There are stories in the soil, loose leaves cover the ground
There´s volumes in the forest, no one reads out loud
If I could take them down off of that mountain shelf
We used to climb but no one tries to go up that far now yeah

We´re all too busy working, entertaining ourselves
Forty hours television and prescription pills
Well I take two a day to make my brain behave
It never does but who´s to say at least my doctor gets paid

So that´s fine, yeah come by we´ll take the afternoon off
We can kiss and undress or if you want just talk
Cause I´ve got nothing real, just empty space to fill
And you´re my girl I like your style just imagine all the time we could kill

And time´s not poison but once you drink it all you´ll die
So let´s just sip it real slow
Yeah we can nurse it all night
Try to believe that once it´s gone
We´ll pour another round and come back to life
Come right back

I guess I´m moving faster now or that´s what they said
And though some days still take forever I can´t disagree
Because it seems to me that I wake up and sleep
Look in the mirror have no idea what happened in between

But I remember counting days down ´til the year could be done
So I could scatter all my notebooks on the prep school lawn
And disappear again into a summer´s bliss
Of staying out sleeping in and getting drunk with my friends

That´s gone and I know that it won´t ever come back
I accept I won´t cling to what I had in the past
But life´s a slippery slope, regret´s the steepest hill
Hope for the best, plan for the worst and maybe wind up somewhere
In the middle

And I´m not saying that I know what I want
But I know what I don´t, don´t want to rot in my room
And never know what could have been
Believe what everyone else tells me is true
Yeah, they say ´true´
That´s what they say