she cut the lights so early   8 isn't bed time for us all   but she needs her sleep.   he wonders why his ship won't sail   and begs for another one to come,   then leaves home forever      the only one we don't need now...   saves the preacher, so cut him out.      he stares so nervously    into the water at his feet   he needs to know how long it takes,    to get clean.   thinking hands upon the hands   end the man who thinks he needs   to take us all down with him      the only one we don't need now...   saves the preacher, so cut him out.      he still needs to know that love is real   and when you touch someone it doesn't feel   like you're forcing yourself to forget   what happened when he left you       he's still waiting for the earth to shake, from his first kiss and his first embrace.