Hard Candy   





On certain Sundays in November  

When the weather bothers me  

I empty drawers of other summer's  

Where my shadows used to be  

She is standing by the water  

As her smile begins to curl  

In this or any other summer  

She is something all together different  

Never just an ordinary girl  

And in the evenings on Long Island  

When the colors start to fade  

She wears a silly yellow hat  

That someone gave her when she stayed  

I didn't think that she returned it  

We left New York in a whirl  

Time expands and then contracts  

When you are spinning  

In the grips of someone  

Who is not an ordinary girl  

When you sleep  

You find your mother in the night  

But she stays just out of sight  

So there isn't any sweetness in the dreaming  

And when you wake the morning covers you with light  

And it makes you feel alright  

But it's just the same hard candy  

You're remembering again  

You send your lover off to China  

Then you wait for her to call  

You put your girl up on a pedestal  

Then you wait for her to fall  

I put my summer's back in a letter  

And I hide it from the world  

All the regrets you can't forget  

Are somehow pressed upon a picture  

In the face of such an ordinary girl  

When you sleep  

You find your mother in the night  

But she fades just out of sight  

So there isn't any sweetness in the dreaming  

And when you wake the morning showers you with light  

And it makes you feel alright  

But it's just the same hard candy  

You're remembering again  

Again  [4X]  

It's just the same hard candy  

You're remembering again  

Again  [4X]  

And it's just the same hard candy  

You're remembering again  

Go ask her to come around  

And see me late after dark  

Don't ask me to come around  

Then wait to if there's a spark  

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