Over The Rhine - Lifelong Fling lyrics

Lifelong Fling

words: Detweiler

music: Bergquist/Detweiler

recording: OHIO

The moon blind-sided the sky again

As we grabbed loose ends of the tide and then

The slippery slide

You know I can't say when

I ever took a ride that could slap me this silly

With roiling joy

Lazy as sin

Lyin' up in heaven with my special friend

And the space he's in

It can make a girl grin

In the beginning of a lifelong fling

I wrote down a dream

Folded the note

Slipped it in the pocket of my tattered coat

I wrote down a dream

In invisible ink

It never was mine I'm beginning to think

I wrote down a dream

What more could I do

I drew myself a picture and the picture was you

I wrote myself a riddle

I said, What I wouldn't do

To give something good

To a love like you

I wrote down a dream

Folded the note

Passed it to you we stepped in our boat

Sailed 'round the world

We were hoping to find

More than the sum of all we left behind

I wrote down a dream

But what was it now

And why does it feel so distant somehow

Did I take too long

Did I get it wrong

You're still the missing line in my favorite song