In the petrified day With the strollers in the park And the radio plays From the top twenty chart Watch the workers go by Holding hands in the sun And all the young girls laugh Till their eyeliners run And it takes a long time Getting home for dinner
When the wolves are out And the jury's watching on the side And the moon is red Oh, and I'm just watching to decide I almost had it And all the experts talking all around Say it's the worst that we've had all year
They don't know They don't know who's in bed together If you can get it straight Yeah, yeah, you can fall in love forever You can fall in love forever You can fall in love forever
Maybe sometime everything'll be clear And it's just as you thought and it's just as you fear "Maybe sometime, " whispers all rambled on How the grape vine sold you out all along
My eyes–they look to the door My thoughts–they swell to a roar My dreams–all folded and read I'll fight these things till I'm dead
'Cause they're always on my mind Yeah, they're always on my mind But that's alright