| Aw it’s dark outside |
| I’ve been trying to get a ride |
| (While) my body waits, my body waits |
| America warm my face |
| I’ve been trying to turn the page |
| Once i was a little boy, staring at my shoes |
| You came along and found me in the chicken coop |
| But time takes over, i can’t say when |
| Time takes over, may we do it again |
| Take me to the beachhead let’s go over |
| All of those rocks at the end of the road |
| Take me down to main street with no clothes on with our bare feet on the |
| Painted yellow lines with our shadows far behind us |
| Broke into that summer school and fooled around on the infirmary cot |
| And we can be like all those fairies making their rain angels in the eddies |
| And I have no expectation just an adolescent heart |
| Take me to the beachhead let’s go over |
| All of those rocks at the end of the road |
| Help me down the seawall let’s find Marci |
| See if she got that |
| Invitation to the movie, the one where the kids break out of juvie |
| And then by their own admission they go and turn themselves all in |
| Just as they get there to the station, |
| The young one wheels and begs the pavement |
| For brother speed to make arrangements with the spirits of the night |
| Take me to the race track let’s go bet on |
| Aw the one that no one expects to win and |
| Let’s bet on the skinny horse he will surely try the hardest to come in first |
| I bet you for the winner they put on some kind of fancy dinner |
| Let’s be like those Philadelphia sisters |
| That have prayed straight for a hundred years |
| I have no expectation, just to be here in the present |
| And behold you for a second before it all goes awa |