Ages of Cages: Don't Know What to Say to You

Don’t Know What to Say to You

Well little spider,
On my journal page
Is this any more then just another stage?
You wove the web of time on my windowsill
But is there any time for redeeming still?
I do wonder…
Yes I do

Oh I do wonder…
Yes I do

I’ve been sitting
On this windy beach
Thinking about things just out of my reach
The stars glimmer off the water at my toes
The lotion on you’re her skin still lingers in my nose

But I don’t know what to say
The right words they never come my way
My common sense is stubborn as a mule
And I just don’t know what to say to you
I don’t know what to say to you

We take shelter
In our basement caves
Filling up our hours with the dirt of our graves
Somebody change the station on the radio
I hear what they’re saying but they talk too slow
I got to go…
Somewhere else

Oh I got to go…
Somewhere else

Gutter water
And penny sweat
They try and make me feel like a contestant
But I’ve never been lucky – never won a thing
They got me moping down the stairs like a child’s spring

The city tends to make us feel that way
So young, yet in such decay
We would do better if we’d live more true
But I just don’t know what to say to you
I don’t know what to say to you

But one day
I’m gonna find the right words and put these walls away
Stow ‘em down in the basement to forever stay
Yeah, I’ll tell ya all the things that I’ve been dying to say…
But just… not today…
Just not today…

Well Ashley
I sure like you
You’re warm like the sun on the morning dew
Cool like the moon on a silver night
Mellow as a candle – playful as a sprite

But I don’t know what to say
The smooth words never come my way
When I, stand here feeling like a crazy fool
Cause I just don’t know what to say to you
I don’t know what to say to you

Well I’m going
Where the winds won’t blow
Where people won’t laugh and say I told you so
But in a damp cave you can’t see clearly
My brain’s a beefcake – my heart’s in atrophy
Oh so lonely…
Oh so blue

Oh if only…
Baby you knew

Now little spider
You have heard my tail
So spin it on a window for I’m setting sail
I’m gonna stretch out – clear some inner weeds
I’ll see you in the autumn with the curling leaves

Oh tell me now, what else can I say?
All I want to do is get away
I must admit I feel some lead in my shoe
But I just don’t know what to say to you
I don’t know what to say to you