Miss Bottom of the Hill

So Miss Bottom of the Hill what do you want?

The sun is shinin' and your lovers always lose you in the dark

And they were all chosen to remember how the sparrows hit the window

That you closed to keep the cat out of the yard

And like your body bein' dragged behind the moon

You bring a memory of your mother like the money in your shoe

And how her penetratin' wisdom, her bulletproof religion

Always rip you like a wool off of the loom

You floated farther than you ever meant to go

And only now see you are naked when the wind began to blow

There's no advice that you've been missin

No trespass unforgiven

Just a river with no pity for your boat

I've come to know that I was stealin' all your kisses on the evenin

The dogs were loose and lyin' on the street

You've learned to blend into the choir

How to hold your hand in fire

And what to say instead of what you mean

But the trouble it saves for just how hard it can be

You met the women gluin' jewels onto a crown

You know men hidin' in the city and their way of bein' found

And you got nothin' on your shoulders

Still there's nothin' too much colder

Than a rubble of a house that's fallin' down

Like a baby cryin 'til it falls asleep

The autumn's over by the time you count the color of the leaves

You're paintin' buzzards on the ceilin

Fallin' faithless at the healin

With your friends around you wailin on their knees

And I've come to know that I was stealin' all your kisses on the evenin

The fog had swallowed everything but us

You've learned to balance on the cable

Drink us all under the table

And who to try instead of who you trust

With a hand on your heart that threw you under the bus

So Miss Bottom of the Hill, what do you want?

The sun is shinin' and you cleaned your pretty pistol of a heart

But when you talk about tomorrow

When to beg and when to borrow

Try to hit the ground before you hear the shot

And like a fish too deep and driftin' in the sea

You've grown accustomed to the blindness lookin' up and anxiously

But there's a stone inside your pocket while you're plowin' through the market

But you know even the time it takes ain't free

I've come to know that I was stealin' all your kisses on the evenin

The stars were barely hangin' in the sky

You've learned to eat when you're not hungry

How to laugh when nothin's funny

And what to get instead of gettin' by

But oh, how it changes with the passin' of time

You heard so many voices hidden in the wind

See all the children of the world and how its fingers reach for them

Two branches tired of their bendin

I don't see our story endin

Quite as clean as it was easy to begin

Like a hole that let the fox under the fence

You've got no solace and no sanctuary you can recommend

Beggin' for mercy at the bedside

We got frozen in the headlights

But our kind of mercy never made much sense

I've come to know that I was stealin' all your kisses on the evenin

But both were disappearin' in the waves

You've learned to lead the one you follow

How to spit out what you swallow

And when to hand’in instead of give away

That secret of ours is one I'll take to the grave

So Miss Bottom of the Hill what do you want?

The sun is shinin' and I think you want me more often than not

But like your father in the garden

I won't finish what I started

'Til you bill me for the flowers I forgot

And like a curse too old for anyone to care

You said to meet you on the mountain cause you never make it there

And sucked your thumb along the highway

Proudly promisin' that one day

I'd miss the way we tumbled down the stairs

And I've come to know that I was stealin' all your kisses on the evenin

The car was gently glidin' off the road

You've learned to rise above your body

How to never say you're sorry

And where to go instead of going home

With the light by the bed and all the clothes you've outgrown