Forever

Lyrics

Unpack the suitcases, baby, let's stay home for a while You can run but you can't hide and I was just hitting my stride When the floodwaters poured down from the mountains Floatin' dogs down Main Street Call all your friends, tell 'em you won't be blowin' 'round for a while Tell them with this call, the line gets cut 'Frigerator's full and the radio's on The Yankees are beating the stuffing out of someone Ain't it funny how some things are still almost recognizable For years I planted my seeds far and wide But never very deep And they all blew away Stripped off of the topsoil, faded and lonesome and blowing Like the dust of New Mexico They killed the mayor for water rights, south of town But life goes on One time I saw him out-drink a buffalo under the moon His wife was an ex-hooker in Florida during the Bay of Pigs She graduated from the race riots in Michigan so they say Things were going good til he started cheating on Mom Don't ask me to speak English, I speak American Don't worry, I won't reveal any secrets 'cept to say That it's one thing to find a little love after the homecoming dance But when you've given it up as some hopeless teenage dream And then find yourself picking up rocks on the beach Placing them inside of a heart-shaped box After you lost your faith in faith In beauty, in meaning, in anything You have redeemed my faith in the alleyway poet Who drinks away his nights and sleeps away his days Recounting mad visions of princes and reckless women And desperate men When I close my eyes I can picture you in that red dress Clinging to your frame like a cloud that settled there And there you were But still it was not until that first kiss That the earth beneath my feet Made some barely perceptible shift And I come to this moment When I say the words I never, ever thought would escape my lips I'm gonna love you forever Forever and ever I'm gonna love you forever And as the paint is peeling down off of the walls Put on your cowboy hat, girl, I think I hear the call Of the desert wailing, mad blowing like a street corner saxophone Calling us home Gonna love you forever Forever and ever I'm gonna love you forever