Grinnin' in the Dark

Yeah, I don't know how

This timepiece squints its bedroom longing

I still now how

Your body's like an empty lobby

Of wedding bells

And general things turned off to me

And a soft light blinks

Like an oven that's half open

And something thinks

Ya know it just can't be this way, it's not broken

But I know now

That you are just grinnin' in the dark

And the city lights

Fill empty pails of unlit glories

The buses swim

Through the corridors of a sea unholy

And I'm a sin

For feelin' like I am running home

But nothin' happens at the bottom of the ocean

Nothin' goes unswallowed by the sand

But still I'm borrowed by this funny notion

That keeps me reachin' blindly for your hand

Yeah, I can't go back

To that place that feels like a river of heart attack

Uh yeah, the thought of it still sends me shivers

And I'm a mess

For believin' you're not grinnin' in the dark

But the sun will rise

Ten times quicker than it usually will

Yeah, the sun will rise

And my heart will shimmer and my skin won't fry

Yeah, the sun will rise

As the light gathers deeply in your eyes

And I have forty answers for my feelings

That could promise them they're gonna go away

My mind's the spool that's got me reelin'

For that poor girl who decided not to stay

But I know now

That your heart is made of fickle feathers

That keeps me around

Because I like the shady weather

I'll say it out loud

Just to know you aren't grinnin' in the dark

But I'm lookin' past

All the shipwrecks tattooed to your back

I'm lookin' past

All these memories that keep holding you back

But not so fast

Is it really that I still care for you?

And I can't believe you're swimmin' in the seaweed

With some guy who claims to be from France

You're gone babe, you just don't know how to reach me

And he's just trying to get in your pants

And somebody once said

It's a sin to have an empty bed

Yeah, somebody once said

It's a sin to make things up in your head

And you're better off dead

Than to let her keep grinnin' in the dark

But I don't care

I'll leave her ribbons everywhere

Yeah, I don't care

I'll remember her kisses and strokin' her hair

Yeah, she's everywhere

And she's laughin' and she's grinnin' in the dark