Buenos Aires Beach

My barricades feel open now
 So I leave behind the bridge
 With a flag with a western wave and a simple stitch to fix
 I'll hold myself together now as you take me through the ditch
 Where the sky crumbled on the floors
 You'll sweep me off of my back
 You'll save me from the rumble you spoke of before
 And the one who saved you
 Ain't the one who you were banking on
 When your highs were cutting through my lows
 Enter through the side door please
 I know you wish to speak to me
 Of old neglected promises
 Of stolen souvenirs
 How you could hear the ocean
 But you could not see the breeze
 When the sky was setting on a Buenos Aires beach
 And the sun was shining on the one I wish to see
 And the plates are shifting under land
 You're beating on the floors
 You're sleeping on the same ones you've been sweeping on
 You're the one that saved me
 And the one I was banking on
 Your highs are cutting through my lows
 So hold me up against the tree
 You used to measure me in feet
 And set your sights to green
 And all the crosstown boys and on
 They show up with the sea shells in their eyes
 But you know what they want
 By the glow of your skin
 And you can overdress for him
 But it will soon grow old
 Well, this winter it came to pass
 So much slower than the last
 And now there's nothing left to grasp
 In our hands and nothing left to catch
 So they'll speak of the past
 In the future perfect tense
 Of places we will go
 Before we grow old