Lasting Words

I met a girl from Brownsville

She kamikaze head-turn got me into a frill

I told her about my friends back home

What they'd say-

How she spoke

Lasting Words in the lasting night

And every time I see a boat by a lake

I want to jump up and say

Let's row away from everything

Said she was a cutter

And I said my dad's a preacher man

I took her to the boat out down by the lake

I kindly took her by the hand

Just to make her understand

I took her to the boat out down by the lake

And just when everything was said

I hugged her hard around her head

I told her there are things that we shouldn't say

Now watch me say them

I tore her down today

Everything just goes away

But the scars you hide today

And you don't want to say