So Long, So Long

Hand out the window
Floating on air
Just a flip of the wrist and I am waving you goodbye

Drive past the lifeguard stand
Where I’d sit around
Waiting for you to remember

As I drive…

How the girls
Can turn to ghosts before your eyes
And the very dreams that led to them
Are keeping them from dying
And how the grace with which she walked into your life
Will stay with you in your steps
And pace with you a while

For so long, so long
[So long, so long]

The speaker in this door is blown
So nothing sounds quite right

(Taking my time, taking this drive within this town, goodbye)

I drive this ocean road
And remember
(Small of your back, nape of your neck,
I remember everthing as I drive
I’m waving this town goodbye)

How the girls
Can turn to ghosts before your eyes
And the very dreams that led to them
Are keeping them from dying
And how the grace with which she walked into your life
Will stay with you and your steps
And pace with you a while
For so long, so long
[So long, so long]

(Taking my time, taking this drive within this town, goodbye)

[And] I will leave under the cover
Of summer’s kiss upon the sky
Like the stone face of your lover
Just before she says goodbye

I was certain that the season
Could be held between my arms
Well just as summer’s hold is fleeting
I was here but now I’m gone
But now I’m gone

So long, so long