How Long

Melissa floats on her back
Exhales into that marble sky
Three months of cops and blacktops
Turn to air with every sigh

Were spitting pits into the grass now
How long can a sweetness last now
How long til this is the past we cant believe were looking back on?

Someone screams 'a water snake!'
Its slicing the skin of the lake
With many others in its wake
How many were there?
I cant say

We strip our suits off for the day
How long can a sweetness stay
How long til we look back and say
We cant believe we lived that way

The storm corrals us to our cars
Likе a wet jaw snapping herding dog
With a crack the lightning starts
And bits of hail bouncе off the tar

Were driving cringing with every pelt
How long til a sweetness melts
How long til there rings a bell
How long til there rings a bell
How long til there rings a bell
That signals us
Return from hell