We were kids once in the good days
When you kissed me in a public place
And an old face screwed up in anger said,
"Get a room."
There were horses in the pasture
In our last days of disaster
And I asked you to sit with me a while
And watch them run
Something wild
We gotta build fences around it
Why do we do that?
Something wild
Why can't we leave it the way that we found it?
Why do we do that to love? Why did we do that to us?
I was crazy about Jesus
As a Tom Petty song about freedom
Like oxygen, when amazing grace was some
Secret affair
And then somehow, I was older
Every Sunday, respectable
Folded hands in my lap and
Put in my place
Something wild
We gotta build fences around it
Why do we do that? Why did they do that?
Something wild
Why can't they leave it the way that they found it?
Why did they do that to love? Why did they do that to us?
Why do they do that? I let them do that
Every time I get bigger
I cut back, so I'll be thinner
Every year I grow taller
I hang back so I'll be smaller
Duck my head, cross my legs
Oh, I want to bloom like the weed in the grass that
Nobody could kill
Something wild
We gotta build fences around it
Why do we do that? Why do I do that?
Something wild
Why? Why? Why do I go quietly?
Why do I do that to me?
Why do I do that? Why do we do that?
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