Phil’s Song (Learn to Stop Time)

[Verse 1]

Well there's a lady I know down in Acapulco

Has a house up high on a hill

Don't bother bringing medicine

Her smile is your pill

[Verse 2]

There's a beach down the street, just a hundred feet

Gonna stick my toes in the sand

There's a couple so old, they're taking a stroll

But they're still holding hands

[Verse 3]

If there's a secret they have, well, I'd like to know

They could whisper it right in my ear

They said, "Open your eyes because you're living blind

And know love is greater than fear"

[Chorus 1]

'Cause I've been up and I've been down

Oh, I've been around and around

[Verse 4]

There's a girl I see when I go back out east

She lets me sleep in her bed

In the morning we talk about everything

What she learned from the books she read

[Verse 5]

There's a store on the corner that sells anything

A simple man might need

Cigarettes and coffee

Lotto tickets just to dream

[Verse 6]

There's a park on the way where I like to go

Just to sit and watch the folks

Kids playing ball

Their mamas on the phone

[Chorus 2]

'Cause I've been here and I've been there

With you, I feel safe and I feel scared

[Bridge]

But if I could learn to stop time

Don't you know I would?

How sweet it would be

Only if I could

[Verse 7]

There's a friend I have, she up and packed her bag

And headed way up north

Turned her back on everything she knew

To brainwash some new foolish fool

[Verse 8]

If I had to guess, he ain't much different than me

Pretty smart but fairly dumb

Fall in line behind a pretty smile

And a phony selfish charm

[Verse 9]

But the past is the past and I don't look back

But sometimes she'll call my phone

Open the wound just to rub some salt

She's a miserable person but it ain't her fault

[Chorus 3]

'Cause I've been here and I've been there

But with you, I feel safe and I feel scared

I've been up, and I've been down

Oh, I've been around and around

[Bridge]

But if I could learn to stop time

Don't you know I would?

How sweet it would be

Only if I could