It starts with your body in motion through The still cool water of a hotel pool You were the most beautiful thing that I'd ever seen In a lifetime of suburban hauntings and strip mall therapy There are two things that could still come between The smell of vinegar and burning leaves Like one of those kitschy finger-traps I know it's killing me and I keep coming back Through collapsing midwest towns concerned With factory farming, prison labor, ten thousand dying birds And now that I've finally got the punchline right Suddenly the joke's not funny from the stage at night The quiet war I've lost so many timеs Nightmares of sleeping pills and clonidine My lawyer calls whеn I am driving home Collection notices from the hospital I fell in love with you the first time in spring So it's only right we're leaving now, the leaves have changed And when I hear someone near me calling out your name I turn around like nothing's changed