Little Sister

Lyrics for Little Sister

I wanna be with you where no one knows us How the tables have turned now, I've grown up Wanna feel your skin, your hair, your nails, your tongue, your throat Wanna feel the fear I should have felt if I'd known more No audience, no stage No theater of pain Or the paranoia about the girl who loved you You won't say her name Wanna spin out to your house on my four wheels Kicking dust up from the archive of that bad dream Little sister on her axis, no heartbeat Should have stopped it if I'd known That the mother shouldn't bleed No audience, no stage No theatre of pain Or the paranoia about the girl who loved you You won't say her name Catch you panting in the doorway in a reverie Let Auburn Street fill with milky stars and baby teeth No, it never really was that way between us Five long trips around the sun, and still your burning was the one No audience, no stage No theatre of pain Or the paranoia about the girl who died for you You won't say her name Wanna rip right through you, hurricane, heart attack Let the wind, that cosmic drummer, at those cold, brass flanks What's it mean, the line between where we've been and where we're at? There's no punctuated healing, just the rough road back To the ocean and the plain The kindness of the rain The gentle voice of someone who loves you Intoning your name