i sit two stories above the street
it's awful quiet since love fell asleep
there's life below me though
the kids are walking home from school

some long ago when we were taught
before whatever puzzle you got
you just stick the right formula in
the solution for every fool

i remember the time when i came so close to you
sent me skippin' my class and runnin' from school
and i bought you that ring
'cause i never was cool

what makes me think
i could start clean slated
the hardest to learn
was the least complicated

i just sit up in the house and resist
and not be seen until i cease to exist
a kind of conscientous objection
a kind of dodging the draft
a boy and a girl are holding hands on the street
and i want to

but i think you just wait
there's more than just eye to eye
learn the things i could never apply
oh i remember the time when i came so close with you
i let everything go
it seemed the only truth
and i bought you that ring
it seemed the thing to do

what makes me think
i could start clean slated
the hardest to learn
was the least complicated

so what makes me think
i could start clean slated
(what makes me think
i could start clean slated)
the hardest to learn
was the least complicated
(the hardest to learn
was the least complicated)

i'm just a mirror of a mirror of myself
all the things that i do
and the next time i fall
i'm gonna have to recall
it isn't love
it's only something new

i sit two stories about the street
it's awful quiet since love fell asleep
there's life below me though
the kids are walkin home from school
and i remember the time when i came so close with you
sent me skippin my class and runnin from school
and i bought you that ring
'cause i never was cool

what makes me think
i could start clean slated
the hardest to learn was the least complicated

so what makes me think
i could start clean slated
the hardest to learn was the least complicated

the least complicated

the least complicated