You get back here, you do it slowly
Do it calm now, don't be so angry
I got something I've been chasing
Every day since I started walking
It just sits there in the distance
and it always flirts with the tips of my fingers

You thought that you could love it
Until it touched you
And now you just wanna stop it
Well I'm sorry it's not likely
It was here when you got here
And it'll be here when you're not here no more

But then some days
I get lucky, I can focus and things are less shaky
And I scrape you off the pale moon
And I slip you into soft shoes
And you tapdance to a jazz band
On a cruise ship near an island
and your hair's up, you wear a short dress
And a wide smile, your movements are careless

It's a daydream I keep having
To make the clocks move while I'm working
Or a bad joke I can't sit through
And I smile because I feel like I have to

But if you'd look under the table
You'd see I'm playing with my knife
I'm slicing stripes into my kneecaps
And I'm struggling just to come off polite

We could be a snapshot framed and hung like a portrait
What if that's true and I'm the only one who knows it?