Deep Swimming

With the coats, the clocks, and the memories The clouds like outstretched arms The summer sprinklers and the fescue Clock radios and circus charms The late-night movie marathons The flash flood rains in June The fallin' asleep with the TV on End of the month too soon, too soon, yeah Damn this job, damn yours too You know there's a lotta good livin' That we forget to do The hours we traded just supposed to be a few There they are the scratched-up records and photographs Of the dogs, the kids and me and you, yeah Now we're out in the deep Deep, deep swimmin' Now we're out in the deep Deep, deep swimmin' With the not now, but maybe one day Broken habits of an aimless youth And the roller skates lost to the closet ghost And the windin' road back to the truth And the figurines of dancin' zebras And the keychains to secret doors And the birthdays of this is all we can do Spontaneous passion on the kitchen floor, kitchen floor The cracks will creak, and the house will moan Late at night, in the absence of patterin' little feet Full of scary dreams that've long since gone and grown Wave your wand, twirl the baton Pull the rabbit from a hat, shiny and fat A little smoke and the years are gone, yeah Now we're out in the deep Deep, deep swimmin' Now we're out in the deep Deep, deep swimmin' And the one more round for the fallen And two less to break the chain And they had it by the tail, but it slipped away Knee-deep fillin' sandbags in the rain And the parents movin' in with their mammoth trunks Full of this is how we right the mast And the rusted engines in the property weeds From the age of built to last With the coats, the clocks, and the memories The clouds like outstretched arms The summer sprinklers and the fescue Clock radios and circus charms The late-night movie marathons The flash flood rains in June The fallin' asleep with the TV on And they all grow up too soon And they all grow up too soon And they all grow up too soon