[00:00.330]They're tearing up streets again[00:04.675]they're building a new hotel[00:09.138]The mayor's out killing kids to keep taxes down[00:17.983]And me and my anger sit folding a paper bird[00:26.952]Letting the curtains turn to beating wings[00:35.350]Wish I had a socket-set to dismantle this morning[00:44.333]And just one pair of clean socks[00:48.204]and a photo of you[00:53.307]When you get off work tonight[00:57.613]meet me at the construction site[01:02.480]And we'll write some notes to tape to the heavy machines[01:11.423]Like "We hope they treat you well[01:15.986]hope you don't work too hard[01:20.597]We hope you get to be happy sometimes[01:29.357]Bring your swiss-army knife, and a bottle of something[01:38.326]And I'll bring some spray paint and a new deck of cards[01:47.236]Hey, I found the safest place[01:51.839]to keep all our tenderness[01:56.507]To keep all our bad ideas[02:00.430]keep all our hope[02:05.422]It's here in the smallest bones[02:09.852]the feet and the inner ear[02:14.341]It's such an enormous thing[02:18.504]to walk and to listen[02:23.084]I'd like to fall asleep to the beat of you breathing[02:32.270]In a room near a truck stop on a highway somewhere[02:42.228]You are a radio[02:46.891]you are an open door[02:51.845]I am a faulty string of blue Christmas lights[03:01.552]You swim through frequencies[03:05.903]you let that stranger in[03:10.648]As I'm blinking off and on and off again[03:20.256]We've got a lot of time[03:25.047]or maybe we don't[03:29.850]But I'd like to think so[03:34.180]so let me pretend[03:39.627]These are my favourite chords[03:44.495]I know you like them too[03:49.087]When I get a new guitar[03:54.308]you could have this one[03:58.761]And sing me a lullaby[04:03.981]sing me the alphabet[04:08.677]Sing me a story I haven't heard yet