I've got your fistful of dollars
If you've got my fistful of stars
I think I've seen those lips before.

Will you ever be able to swim upstream?
No more rocking, my head is unstable
I'm dying, and my wings are sore.

Flash flood warning in Chester
I didn't notice the rain
I'd walk to the center of the earth
If it meant I'd see you again.

I think I've seen your eyes this blue once
The last time I hurt you this bad
Little round pills won't cure me
Even after all the sugar I've had.

An ordinary girl would buy you that cloud
And soar wherever you wish to go
But you've always said I'm no ordinary girl.

And I have left the planet several times
And weaved a rope of a million miles
But I still can't lasso the world.

But when I own dirt in Oklahoma
I'll be alright... until then
Just say you'll watch the lightning with me.

When dust surrounds me in Arizona
I'll survive... until then
Just say you'll feel the thunder through me.

I know now that it's raining outside
And any chance I had for life
Is now gone because I never
Once stayed awake all night

And I realize that last week
I could have slept inside his arms
But I was with you because I thought
There wouldn't be any harm

And even a tank of gas won't help me now
Because I'm so far out of town
That I can never turn back...
But you don't know I even left.

And I realize that even though
I've had my eyes closed
And been dreaming for 7 years
It feels like a lifetime since I last slept.

-March 21st, 1999-