Hello Exile

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Her language was a perfect phrase Her playful prose followed me for days Down the alleyways of my desires To their final resting place In a vacation town where I lived year round She migrated here with the summer crowds And we fell in love under impossible smiles Life was perfect, if just for a little while [Refrain] Oh-ooh-woah-ooh-woah, oh-ho Hello exile [Chorus] And a thousand years may come and go We may never meet another soul Here on our own island of Elba in the Poconos [Refrain] Oh-ooh-woah-ooh-woah, oh-ho Hello exile [Verse 2] And we bathed in the sun, cut our jeans into shorts Outstared every star in the sky Under the cover of nowhere, the present was a present It looked beautiful on you every night But we knew it would end, yeah, we knew it all along It was a future never reconciled It's as if lettin' your shackled heart feel loved Was more difficult than total denial [Refrain] Oh-ooh-woah-ooh-woah, oh-ho Hello exile [Chorus] And a thousand years may come and go And oh, I may never meet another soul Here on my own island of Elba in the Poconos [Refrain] Oh-ooh-woah-ooh-woah, oh-ho Hello exile [Interlude] [Bridge] Now I imagined her memory would fade into the void And she'd only reappear every now and again I'd smile at the thought of us, go back to my day But that was purely wishful thinkin' [Refrain] Oh-ooh-woah-ooh-woah, oh-oh Hello exile [Chorus] And a thousand years may come and go And I may never meet another soul Here on my own island of Elba in the Poconos And displayed in the nightstand of my mind Are pictures of you from the summertime Swimmin' in the Delaware, wringin' out your long blonde hair [Refrain] Oh-ooh-woah-ooh-woah, oh-ho Hello exile Oh-ooh-woah-ooh-woah, oh-oh, oh-oh Hello exile