Wouldn’t It Be

If the phone would only ring just for the joy of saying hello
you’re not interrupting anything interruption being all there is
to distract you from always thinking you’ve never been wherever you’re going
to distract you from always thinking you’ve already been wherever you’re going
just a moment I forgot the occurrence up ahead of the last dance
my romanticism getting the best of me seems we’re finally getting somewhere
how should I know limping behind an urge to wonder
going outside for a cigarette you are the smoke guess what is heard in the distance
amazing the flick of the switch just sometimes we need to turn on the light
do what you must do and do it well okay says the blinding echo of sarcasm
dinner’s ready says whoever forgot to put the the plates on the table
you have your life I have mine take my hand we’ll break the habit of asking
don’t know what there is to find out saying is just what saying is oh joy of wordless wonder
becoming’s transparent fact let’s go back to our desk to print out the text
oh won’t you wear my verb around your neck meaning when you go away only you go away
no insult intended I mean when you’re not here only you are not here no insult intended
trying to say I think so therefore I am in my own way in the clockwork midnight of our great ease
something was indeed accomplished while you were just sitting around
now you may ask with particularly heavy Texan cowboy drawl is that all there is