Minutemen - The tin roof lyrics

When we're walking down a boulevard

Could you at least pretend that I am alive?

Don't you know I'm skin and bones?

Would at least instill the thought that I have a heart?

When you see me, I'll wave hello again

And we'll make contact and talk all night long

When you see that I was so alone

Well I hope we can be as good of friends again

Oh, we've been silent for far too long...

These sticks and stones, they broke my bones

The words they cut so deep and I'm barely alive

Don't you feel the words in the back of your throat

Burning deep within

You couldn't say "I'm sorry"

But they say, "Time heals all wounds..."