We tore the shadows from the trees We stared into the silence like a counting of stars We swore that we would leave them if the twilight was ours As you slept I watched the rain That afternoon got washed away Though the memory denies me She whispered defeat I swear that I was happy For that moment at least I was saved Everything always nearly Everything always nearly As I picture her near me Negative of love We scared the swans and wasted hours And dusk came down obscured by clouds She read my E.E. Cummings and I read her Robert Frost And though the map was over I just knew that we were lost I pulled a frame from off the wall I left the nails there just to show The photos never taken there's a resonance there And the curving of her shoulders and the smell of her hair, I'm saved Everything always nearly (nearly everything) Everything always nearly (nearly everything) As I picture her near me Negative of love I'll get through another life I'll wait 'til morning now Thinking of things that I might have said Though now, and how does that song go We're having the time of our lives See that girl, dig that scene, I was saved Everything always nearly (nearly everything) Everything always nearly (nearly everything) Everything always nearly (nearly everything) As I picture her near me Negative of love |