[00:37.490]So Miss Bottom of the Hill what do you want?
[00:40.897]The sun is shinin' and your lovers always lose you in the dark
[00:44.868]And they were all chosen to remember how the sparrows hit the window
[00:49.503]That you closed to keep the cat out of the yard
[00:55.099]And like your body bein' dragged behind the moon
[00:58.867]You bring a memory of your mother like the money in your shoe
[01:03.039]And how her penetratin' wisdom, her bulletproof religion
[01:07.117]Always rip you like a wool off of the loom
[01:13.128]You floated farther than you ever meant to go
[01:17.170]And only now see you are naked when the wind began to blow
[01:21.348]There's no advice that you've been missin
[01:24.102]No trespass unforgiven
[01:27.095]Just a river with no pity for your boat
[01:31.170]I've come to know that I was stealin' all your kisses on the evenin
[01:35.641]The dogs were loose and lyin' on the street
[01:41.524]You've learned to blend into the choir
[01:43.392]How to hold your hand in fire
[01:45.833]And what to say instead of what you mean
[01:48.506]But the trouble it saves for just how hard it can be
[01:55.020]You met the women gluin' jewels onto a crown
[01:59.312]You know men hidin' in the city and their way of bein' found
[02:03.354]And you got nothin' on your shoulders
[02:05.129]Still there's nothin' too much colder
[02:07.533]Than a rubble of a house that's fallin' down
[02:13.455]Like a baby cryin 'til it falls asleep
[02:17.042]The autumn's over by the time you count the color of the leaves
[02:21.142]You're paintin' buzzards on the ceilin
[02:23.391]Fallin' faithless at the healin
[02:25.587]With your friends around you wailin on their knees
[02:31.054]And I've come to know that I was stealin' all your kisses on the evenin
[02:35.530]The fog had swallowed everything but us
[02:41.351]You've learned to balance on the cable
[02:43.278]Drink us all under the table
[02:45.568]And who to try instead of who you trust
[02:48.700]With a hand on your heart that threw you under the bus
[02:55.101]So Miss Bottom of the Hill, what do you want?
[02:59.914]The sun is shinin' and you cleaned your pretty pistol of a heart
[03:03.455]But when you talk about tomorrow
[03:05.535]When to beg and when to borrow
[03:07.930]Try to hit the ground before you hear the shot
[03:13.759]And like a fish too deep and driftin' in the sea
[03:18.064]You've grown accustomed to the blindness lookin' up and anxiously
[03:21.139]But there's a stone inside your pocket while you're plowin' through the market
[03:25.365]But you know even the time it takes ain't free
[03:31.649]I've come to know that I was stealin' all your kisses on the evenin
[03:35.553]The stars were barely hangin' in the sky
[03:41.401]You've learned to eat when you're not hungry
[03:43.476]How to laugh when nothin's funny
[03:45.605]And what to get instead of gettin' by
[03:48.495]But oh, how it changes with the passin' of time
[03:55.377]You heard so many voices hidden in the wind
[03:58.946]See all the children of the world and how its fingers reach for them
[04:03.227]Two branches tired of their bendin
[04:05.363]I don't see our story endin
[04:07.791]Quite as clean as it was easy to begin
[04:13.768]Like a hole that let the fox under the fence
[04:17.412]You've got no solace and no sanctuary you can recommend
[04:21.120]Beggin' for mercy at the bedside
[04:23.401]We got frozen in the headlights
[04:25.401]But our kind of mercy never made much sense
[04:31.125]I've come to know that I was stealin' all your kisses on the evenin
[04:33.410]But both were disappearin' in the waves
[04:41.020]You've learned to lead the one you follow
[04:43.320]How to spit out what you swallow
[04:45.575]And when to hand’in instead of give away
[04:50.958]That secret of ours is one I'll take to the grave
[04:57.400]So Miss Bottom of the Hill what do you want?
[05:01.263]The sun is shinin' and I think you want me more often than not
[05:05.085]But like your father in the garden
[05:07.767]I won't finish what I started
[05:09.569]'Til you bill me for the flowers I forgot
[05:17.370]And like a curse too old for anyone to care
[05:21.805]You said to meet you on the mountain cause you never make it there
[05:23.814]And sucked your thumb along the highway
[05:25.212]Proudly promisin' that one day
[05:27.890]I'd miss the way we tumbled down the stairs
[05:33.564]And I've come to know that I was stealin' all your kisses on the evenin
[05:37.259]The car was gently glidin' off the road
[05:42.970]You've learned to rise above your body
[05:45.374]How to never say you're sorry
[05:47.084]And where to go instead of going home
[05:50.665]With the light by the bed and all the clothes you've outgrown