Stupid Mouth Shut

(Dan Messe)
The sidewalk bends where your house ends
Like the neighborhood is on its knees
Youre surrounded by a chain-link fence
That keeps me out but lets me see
Well I come by most every night
The shutters pounding in the breeze
A clothesline strung like paper kites
That blow my words right back at me
But someday when my heart exhales
Ill tell you everything
These sweet words spilling all about us
Ill say please please be with me
And Ill breathe so easily
But instead
Im turning blue
I look at you
And keep my stupid mouth shut
The hall light streams out through the screens
And the shadows capture me in webs
Just tangled up in what
Ive seen
And every word
I have not said
I have not said
Cuz the sidewalk bends where your house ends