"How to Age Gracefully"

Oeffling: guitars, bass, piano, organ, keyboards, drums, drum programming, shakers, tambourine, vocals

I

This time, next fall

It won't really matter at all

When you're loving in the kitchen of the man upstairs and

Everything was only my fault

All the cinema lines that you've quoted in times of

Silence on the phone with your cops

Show, don't tell me

The great subtext of your parents' car

I've been running around for too long

Searching in the grocery store and

Corridors where people know your name

We're running from the same crowd

Every little pattern you pick apart

So moat me on the same ground

Powder showers pull me closer

You know you never started at all

You've been running around for too long

Sneaking errands on your father's card

Vowing poverty pursuing arts

Well, I've wanted to tell you

II

(instrumental)

III

When we sent our bodies hurling down your street

You taught me how to age gracefully
And I've never found your two cents too far gone from ordinary

Take a One-A-Day twice a day

Shave with the grain and cut against the grain

Put your last name first and your first name last on your worst day

And walk against traffic

For Peter's sake, look both ways

Apples aren't vaccines

Don't read into your dreams

Talk to your loved ones, try art therapy

People usually get married when there's nothing better to do

If you can't see me, I just can't see you

Make an "X" for yourself

Left under the right, snug tight

Then loop the loops for bunny ears on both sides

Make them twist all kissless

Make them feel alive

One jumps in the hole and comes out the other front just fine

Pull tight

Know when you're laughing, know when you're being used

Don't leave in a trenchcoat, walking out with somebody's shoes

Show up first if it's the last thing that you do

If you can't see me, I sure as hell can't see you

I can't see you

Caught in an optic call

How eyes can attack you

Muscles have memory and mine is a vacuum

You'd mute the eyestar jets for me

But you're not an ambulance

IV

I know you're aware

I know you know

I know what you've wanted