it rained for three days straight
and i thought that i could articulate
how it felt like i was drowning
but i don't think any words i say
could accurately convey
how the water rose when i looked at you
and how it took my breath away
now the sun pours through
the open window and i
sit around, watch the sun go down,
dressed up in january brown and sigh
it's nothing less than everything we'll be
you'd never guess how difficult it was to breathe
chorus: i know it takes two to tango
but we're evasively goose-stepping
fox-trotting and regretting the way
it's always two forward three back and
this is getting nowhere
i don't really care about the view
this is getting nowhere
and i am getting nowhere with you
forgiveness felt like a sound bird
in the moment when all the words failed
and we stood in the traffic
in the stillness and the sunlight
in the grace after the storm
in the concrete and the wet bricks
and the open sky and the constant change
and the rain, and the rain.
the statues and the sidewalks
and the way you took my breath away
the weather and the streetsigns and
the way you took my breath away
the way you took my breath away
the way you took my breath away
chorus
