Budapest

The sun went down behind the house

Before the grass could melt

And fingers stiff like icicles

Hot coffee helps

The sky is clear but you can’t tell

Clever as you are

If what we see when we look up

Are satellites or stars

And I just wish they’d leave the moon alone, you know

‘Cos when our kids are sleeping,

Where are they supposed to go?

And for lovers in different cities

A billboard just won't be as pretty

I wish they could learn to leave

Good enough alone

Wrap me in a blanket

And spin me into space

I want to feel that silence

See that look upon your face

Spiralling downward I would lose the race

I’m still getting ‘round to hearing those songs you sent

It’s not that I didn’t have the time

Just knew that their intent

Would shake me

And make me wish I was somewhere else

So, I put them with the books I mean to read on the shelf

And you’ll go to Budapest

Rent somewhere for a while

Maybe learn the language

Or get by on a smile

Lose yourself within that crowd

Drink from a different font

They say, “Don’t make yourself so small”

Sometimes that’s what you want

Put me in a basket and send me up the river

Let the mothers hold me

When I cry and shiver

I’m packaged and posted

Ready to be delivered