At the top of the world There is a half-year sun The water's all froze And one thousand men old On the side of the hill There are no wanting eyes But you're a spectacle a spinning doll Now the hour is fading but ours is staying Its all syncopated to your heart's hard heartbeat time You may never miss a sign
At the base of your skull I've got a place there still All my clothes spread out aI was just thinking most of last Wednesday I hope we're together from here until Doomsday We could be each other's arms Keep each other free from harm Because when it's all stripped to the bone My life is at home
Spring cleaning's coming as we lose the cold weather Put away your long johns and all your thick sweaters We'll cut off all our winter hair Sit out on the lawn chairs As the sun forgets that we're here We forget our career
All the lukewarm weeks at sixty degrees We're hoping it's humid show our summer knees Once in a lifetime once in a while the sun will shine on me Thursday I'm leaving skip town I'm running It's cars and new faces and jokes that aren't funny But we laugh at them anyway I'd do anything just to kill the day No matter how far that I go I'm not so far away All the lukewarm weeks at sixty degrees We're hoping it's humid show our summer knees Once in a lifetime once in a while the sun will shine on me All the humid nights parked under streetlights My baby's riding shotgun in her knee high tights She looks like heaven I feel like the devil In my Sunday whites
As I slowly better my craft I'm still a ghost of my better half Cos once in awhile the sun shines on me In a permanent row
Now the hour is fading but ours is staying It's all syncopated to your hearts hard heartbeat time We will never not get together We will never not get too old The water's all frozen one
And I've got a place there still And we will not get too old