Rockaway

We packed up a car
I don't know whose it was
With blankets and beers
We stopped for gas and chocolate bars

We got lost, we got found
And out sorrows we drowned
In Rockaway
In Rockaway

The radio broke
So we sang songs instead
A girl I didn't know
With a copper bracelet - put her hand in my hand

Oh but hands lead and lead away
If only nightbirds could stay
In Rockaway
In Rockaway

We sat on the shore
And stripped down to our kin
And ran to the sea
The water was cold but she went in so I did

In that space between dusk and dawn
You don't always know which side of a dream you're on
In Rockaway
In Rockaway

The tide starts creeping in
Taking what it will
Wood and rocks and bones
Returned to the world below

After breakfast we slept
Until late afternoon
All over the house
And in the front lawn - all of the neighbors were gone

And somewhere in my sleep
I knew there was nothing I could keep
In Rockaway
In Rockaway

Some friends I have known
For as long s we've grown
Like blackberry vines
Taking over the earth from the side of the road

Tangled up in fruits and thorns
Where rabbits ran and deer lock horns
In Rockaway
In Rockaway