Lady Lamb - Ten lyrics

So easily I forgot lifting
The sandbox in Arizona and catching
The geckos and keeping them as pets and
On Halloween candies, jack o'lantern
Their tails would fall
Clear from their bodies
And we'd shriek and we'd run keep on playing
Playing

My sister she is with me
Even when we are apart
We were wading through the water
Flashlights flickering in the dark
Climbing the laundry poles
In the tomato garden
Spying on all the neighbors swimming
Laughing we were laughing
That night in Maine I met my best friend
Talking 'til 7 AM
Realizing we're both afraid of the notion
Of having our brains be in
The body of a whale in the ocean, deep
Where the light don't reach
And I loved him instantly
I knew we could keep talking talking

On that drive up the winding mountain roads
From Hudson to Vermont in the seasons
Where snow
The boys asleep in the back of the car
We were in the front, we were singing along
To every word of the songs
That helped make us who we are
At the top of our lungs singing
Singing

My mother my mother, she keeps a journal
Of her childhood memories as they return
My favorite's the story recounting when
She saw an eagle with a fish in it's mouth
She was ten when she wrote it down
There's a sweetness in us that
Lives long past the dust
On our eyes, once our eyes finally close