You And Me On The Rock

(album: In These Silent Days - 2021)

They build wooden houses on frozen ponds
In the summertime when the water's gone
Diagonal lines in their rolled-out lawns
And the sage always smells so pretty
But nobody cares where the birds have gone
When the rain comes down on Babylon
The stonemason's phone rings all day long
And you gotta get back to the city

I build my house up on this rock, baby
Every day with you
There's nothing in that town I need
After everything we've been through
Me out in my garden and you out on your walk
Is all the distance this poor girl can take
Without listening to you talk
I don't need their money, baby
Just you and me on the rock
You and me on the rock

I built paper planes when I learned to fly
Like a 747 falling out of the sky
I folded 'em crooked and now I'm wondering why
I could always end up in the water
But nobody's asking why she looking so thin
Why she's laughing too hard, why she drinking again
A falling star, she's a paper plane
And she was going down when you caught her

I build my house up on this rock, baby
Every day with you
There's nothing in that town I need
After everything we've been through
Me out in my garden and you out on your walk
Is all the distance this poor girl can take
Without listening to you talk
I don't need their money, baby
Just you and me on the rock

It's an earthquake, it's a hard wind
It's a record-breaking tide and it is rolling in
It's a big sea, but it can't touch you and me
It's just a water view
And what a view
I don't need their money, baby
Woo

I build my house up on this rock, baby
Every day with you
There's nothing in that town I need
After everything we've been through
Me out in my garden and you out on your walk
Is all the distance this old girl can take
Without listening to you talk
I don't need their money, baby
Just you and me on the rock

I don't need their money, baby (I don't need their money, baby)
Just you and me on the rock (Just you and me on the rock)
You and me on the rock