chandeliers

last night i was looking for some romance

i went to a square dance feeling like a circle

but did you see my mom last night?

she was so dang pretty

i ended up in a corn field

skeeters on my toe nails

'til the cows came back from their bleeding

did you see my dad last night?

he was so dang witty

and love scares me

like chandeliers

pretty shards of glass

to clean my ears

hanging from a single wire

waiting for the plaster to crack

hanging from a single wire

waiting for the plaster to crack

hanging from a single

hanging from a single

single. i'm always dumbing up the smart things

and smarting up the dumb things

and knottin' up my shoe strings

and messing up the good things

but did you see the stars last night?

punctuation for a perfect poem and

tearin' down your walls

but i'm building up my walls

so no one knows no nothing

no one knows no nothing

did you see god last night?

an eighty-year-old on a red tricycle

i built the earth

i love you

goddammit

i mean gosh darn

i built the earth

above you

goddamn

gosh darn

and you can't take this away

you can't take this away

you can't take this away

and love scares me

like chandeliers

pretty shards of glass

to clean my ears

hanging from a single wire

waiting for the plaster to crack

hanging from a single wire

waiting for the plaster to crack

hanging from a single

hanging from a single

single.