[name in the sand]
[lyrics: woodley]


i think i was five... sitting in the boat with pop-pop
he played violin and cut the warts off of his thumb...
and said never succumb to tedium.
so i dressed up for halloween...
as a spiderboy and a hot dog, all the other kids were toy marines,
I quietly dreamed of the day I'd achieve
more than jellybeans and plasticine.

i don't want you to know...
all the shit i've done, all the times i've sold part of my innocence
just to have ins... with the mortal sins and mannequins.
easy to say yes... to false-heartedness,
after all i'm not jesus temptation-less,
I'd gladly repress celebrity's pound of flesh.

goodnight and goodbye, i won't see you anymore.
i'm going to stencil my name in the sand.
i'm sorry that I wasn't better for you,
i'm sorry you don't understand.

all the doctors say, it's magnetic anyway,
where you come from is where you gotta stay, but not today.

goodnight and goodbye, I'm headed northeasterly;
I'm starting to question my place in the stars.
I know that I promised to be there for you,
but I don't feel like going that far.


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