[Verse 1] Found a body at the rest stop Buried in the woods beneath The garbage and leaves Workers clearing overgrowth Saw hidden in the brush Just beyond the line of the trees A jawbone and teeth Winter into spring On Fulton Street
[Verse 2] And cities grow weeds And cities grow And cities keep secrets in the trees In the shadow of a pyramid And cities grow weeds And cities grow By the river and the covered bridge All cities grow weeds And I know
[Verse 3] All the memories your dreams retrieve You pick a dress out for the funeral Hold a vigil in the field Release lanterns at night And I saw on the shoulder of the interstate When I followed your eyes When I followed your eyes All the crosses for the accidents All the photos and the flowers by the street
[Chorus 1] Will I ever put flowers by the street? Will I ever put flowers by the street? Never needed to live and suffer through the pain All the tyrannies of grief If I ever do Will I even have the strength to do anything? Could I go and leave flowers by the street?
[Verse 4] And I saw signs on the shoulder of the interstate When I followed your eyes And I saw lights fading every monument And the passage of time If I could just try, could I banish all the pain in you? Give you everything you need? If I hid rose quartz underneath the mattress Would it help you nights When you're struggling to sleep? When you're struggling to sleep? Will I ever be half what I can be? Can I ever be half what I can be? If you needed me to be anything Could I even be half of what you need? Will I ever be me? Will I ever be me? If I could take hands to shake you Would you want me to? If it shook you out of grief? If I gave chase Summers when you tunneled into nothingness Would it bring you some release? If I saw signs on the shoulder of the interstate When I followed where your eyes went I saw nights spent after midnight in a eulogy That you never got to give And I saw fenders bent hard on an oak tree I saw sirens at the scene I saw cigarettes falling in the tangle of machinery Between the console and seat And I saw hands reach Car drift across the center line I saw it all in my dreams And I saw leaves hiding bodies In the tree line off the interstate But I've never put flowers by the street
[Chorus 2] I've never put flowers by the street If you need for me to be anything I could be everything you need If you need for me to be anything I could be everything you need Every monument Every memory And I've never put flowers by the streetTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
