Stupid Mouth Shut

The sidewalk bends where your house ends
 Like the neighborhood is on its knees
 You're surrounded by a chain-link fence
 That keeps me out but lets me see
 Well I come by most every night
 The shutters pounding in the breeze
 A clothesline strung like paper kites
 That blow my words right back at me
 But someday when my heart exhales
 I'll tell you everything
 These sweet words spilling all about us
 I'll say please please be with me
 And I'll breathe so easily
 But instead I'm turning blue
 I look at you
 And keep my stupid mouth shut
 The hall light streams out through the screens
 And the shadows capture me in webs
 Just tangled up in what I've seen
 And every word I have not said
 I have not said
 Cuz the sidewalk bends where your house ends
 Like the neighborhood is on its knees