Surprise

You were nothing but the fragrance of an old dream

And that was just time playin' tricks on my mind

You've escaped from all the pictures that I remember

Now you come back as a bottle of wine

In your letters, I can see your mouth was movin'

Your voice was at the tip of my recall

Then your ghost could only brush against my T-shirt

Now your body shows up to take it off

And your movements, I could match before your maker

I know them deep enough to paint them in the air

Life is a liquid, and I stretch far past its borders

I have a feeling you'll be waiting for me there

And my city shakes its head at my wilderness

And my heart has built a mind for itself

And I have found a little shelter inside of a sickness

I'll be waiting for the icicles to melt

And I wanna borrow the night, use it on you

When the sun goes down

Let's leave these rusted old folks back in the city

Where they belong, where they belong

And your children, like little wolves, they go unnoticed

As the diamonds play their game against the sand

And I have found an ocean in the doorway of your body

I know the secret but I haven't got a plan

And I wanna borrow the night, use it on you when the sun goes down

Let's leave these rusted old folks back in the city where they belong

There was a cloud in my face, now I gotta wash my eyes

'Cause I thought love was just a strip mall, baby, you are a surprise

You are a surprise, oh, yeah