Shane Koyczan, The Short Story Long - Stop Signs lyrics

It's all stop signs
It's all lines that shouldn't be crossed
It's all interpretations that have
Been lost in translation
Even when the meaning is embossed on
Something that redefines stop signs
Something that erases and redraws
Lines for all the
Times curiosity gets the better of us
But until it gets the best we test the lines
Until it gets the best it's all stop signs

Now all that you are changes we love
While you are gone i'll be waiting

And then theres you
And I wanna kiss you so bad
That I'd be willing to cut off my own head
And just throw it towards you lips
And you'd be well within your rights to
Just swat it to the floor


But, I'd redefine hardcore
Lying there at the tips of your toes
Because god knows I'd be trying to figure out
Some way to roll towards them
And maybe that's crossing the line
Maybe that's a little creepy
Did I mention that I like you?
If I knew you better than I do
I would know creepy's not the way to go
So how's this?
I wanna kiss you like a traffic jam
I wanna move slow
I wanna stop and go like I know
At least I'm moving towards you
And there's no use weaving
Through the gridlock
Because every clock keeps poly
Ticking and tocking to tell me this time for
All the amazing in between
Thats been seen and heard
And each word that's passed between us
Like someone with somewhere to go
And I know I hardly know you so lets go slow
Like a turtle with a purpose
Let's not miss a single minute
Because every 60 seconds
That contained within it
Are the two hundred times I've tried
To coax each smile to bloom into a laugh
And the exact science of math
Can't begin to calculate half the
Time it would take to
Make misery turn it'self into a punch-line
One that was willing to mine
Past silver and gold
Just looking for something to tell you
Something that's never been told
I wanna hold you like mine are
The last arms in the world
I want them curled around you like the red
And white stripes on a barber pole
And when I give you a
Lump of coal for christmas and tell you that
In a million years it's gonna be a diamond
And will you wait for me until then?
Because that's when I'll be evolved enough
To melt all the other brains of men on earth
And maybe I've got a shot if all that remains
Is two gazelles on a Serengeti planes and me
Of course if you're willing to make sweet
Sweet love
With animals, I'll totally understand
I'm good like that
I'll ban together with whatever
Vegetation is left living
Me three weeds and a rubber plant
Will spend thanksgiving saying how
"grateful we are that you're happy"

Now all that you do
Helps me get through love if you're unsure
I will show you

I want you to feel like the banana peal
Under Charlie chaplains shoe
Because it's you that brings the
House of this heart down
It's you that's the chamber of commerce
In a town thats got nothing to offer
But everything everyone can't find every
Where else under the sun
I'm done with all of the every that
Done thinking of where it is I'm going
I'm figuring about where it is I'm at
And that has got to be
Beside the one who's stopped
Me from trying to calculate the
Sum total of someone
As if this biological calculus has
Ever done anything for me
Other than the something that
Keeps me seeking
To self providence that don't exist
Like a swat team sharp
Shooter with cataracts
I've missed the point more
Times than certain Americans
Have been elected to the oval office
Which is always once too often
And lets face it sometimes two, too many
But this time i'm willing to pay interest on
A penny for your thoughts, mortgage my mind
Finance an expedition that will find me a
Better way to get to know you
Because I've read through the short
Story of my life
And found that your name stands
Out on the page
Your slightest look unlocks the tumblers
On my rib cage and you can gage my sincerity
When I lift my heart towards you and
Tell you in a million years
It'll be less than dust
The slightest gust will blow it away
But, you'll have to listen to wind chimes say
That you still are worth waiting for

Don't tell me you're not beautiful
You're the kind of beautiful that
The blind would see
If we could figure out some way to
Give them three seconds of sight
When you tell me you're not gorgeous I
Want to pop out your left eye
And show it to your right

Now, all that you do
Helps me get through love if you're unsure
I will show you all that you are
Changes me love while you are gone
I'll be waiting

You're worth crossing whatever distance
It would take
Worth building bridges to make a connection
Because I've been secretly
Stealing stop signs
Repainting traffic lines so I can
Only go one way
Because as far as I can tell
Dedication is the better part of foreplay
And I admit it I'm committed
Everything I've done I've did it
To make you smile
Because it's been the largest
Part some long while
Since I've had someone do that for me
You feel like comedy
After three years of being on
The bandwagon of calamity
And I can't be bothered with a tragedy
Without trying to get to know you
I've been through enough wretchedness to know
That some flowers can still
Grow through the garbage
And you make me want to take up gardening
Seeing sadness drain the spirit
Out of this history
As if the worst is yet to come
Those that took the time to know me
Know I don't run
Partly because I'm not athletic
But mostly because that's life and
I've met it head on!
I've gone the distance more times than George
Lucas looked at Jarjar Binks and thought
"FUCK!"

And until I fit the bill
I will still fill my day's trying
Because I'm yours
From the bottom to the top
And I'm not just saying I'll be here for you
I'm saying I'll never stop