Paper Football

Chocolate ice cream on your tight tan face

Lying on the hammock and staring into space

Hum a melody, then it’s gone without a trace

Hmmm…

Feel the ridges, valleys, ridges of your bones

As I paint my name on your skin in Coppertone

And you cheat on your homework over the phone

Sweet and sad

I didn’t cry when I heard the news of your suicide

Just saw you sitting there, sweet and sad

I took the blow and it cast my memory back

To playing paper football in the back of class

Drive an hour just to go and mock the gossips at the mall

And talk of movie stars and losers in the bathroom stall

Frame our names in heart on cracked white tile wall

Forever and ever

That night lying back in the bed of a hand-me-down highboy in the holler

Rolling round and fooling round and pulling bourbon from the bottle

Screaming and shouting at the shooting stars to stay a little longer

Forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever…

I didn’t cry when I heard the news of your suicide

Just saw you sitting there forever and ever

I heard the words and they cast my memory back

To playing paper football in the back of class

Images of high and wild, dancing and insane

Printing doubles so we both could have the same

Drop into the junk store to buy some empty frames

Drag my shadow down Lake Murray Blvd

No one home, so wait in your front yard

Sunshine tries to bleach away my scars

While I think about the dealer who dealt us these cards

Darkness falls on your front yard

Hmmm…

Oooh oooh

Slipping and sliding in and out of forever

Slowly sliding and slipping down the river

Beat back the current and never surrender

Playing paper football forever and ever