I sit two stories above the street

It's awful quiet here since love fell asleep

There's life down below me though the kids are walking home from school



So long ago when we were taught 

That for whatever kind of puzzle you got

You just stick the right formula in a solution for every fool



I remember the time when I came so close to you

Sent me skipping my class and running from school

And I bought you that ring cause I never was cool



What makes me think I can start clean-slated?

The hardest to learn was the least complicated



So I just sit up in the house and resist

And not be seen until I cease to exist

A kind of conscientious objection a kind of dodging the draft



Boy and girl are holding hands in the street

And I don't want to but I'll think you just wait

It's more than just eye to eye learn things I could never apply



I remember the time I came so close with you 

I let everything go it seemed the only truth

And I bought you that ring it seemed the thing to do



What makes me think I can start clean-slated?

The hardest to learn was the least complicated

What makes me think I can start clean-slated?

The hardest to learn was the least complicated



Oh I'm just a mirror of a mirror of myself

All the things I do

And the next time I fall I'm going to have to recall

It isn't love it's only something new



I sit two stories above the street

It's awful quiet here since love fell asleep

There's life down below me though the kids are walking home from school



I remember the time I came so close to you

Sent me skipping my class and running from school

And I bought you that ring cause I never was cool



What makes me think I can start clean-slated?

The hardest to learn was the least complicated

What makes me think I can start clean-slated?

The hardest to learn was the least complicated



Na na na na na na na (least complicated)

Na na na na na na na (least complicated)

Na na na na na na na

Na na na na na na na

Na na na na na na na




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