Wild

We were kids once in the good days

When you kissed me in a public place

And an old face, screwed up in anger, said

"Get a room"

There were horses in the pasture

In our last days of disaster

And I asked you to sit with me a while

And watch them run

Something wild

We gotta build fences around it

Why do we do that?

Something wild

Why can't we leave it the way that we found it?

Why do we do that to love? Why did we do that to us?

I was crazy 'bout Jesus

Like a Tom Petty song about freedom

Like oxygen, when amazing grace was some

Secret affair

And then somehow, I was older

Every Sunday, more respectable

Folded hands in my lap and

Put in my place

Something wild

We gotta build fences around it

Why do we do that? Why did they do that?

Something wild

Why can't they leave it the way that they found it?

Why did they do that to love? Why did they do that to us?

Why do they do that?

I let them do that

Every time I get bigger

I cut back, so I'll be thinner

Every year I grow taller

I hang back so I'll be smaller

Duck my head, cross my legs

Oh, I want to bloom like a weed in the grass that

Nobody could kill

Something wild

We gotta build fences around it

Why do we do that? Why do I do that?

Something wild

Why? Why? Why do I go so quietly?

Why do I do that to me?

Why do I do that?

Why do we do that?