loretta

Lyrics

look at the shadow on our trees, seems to mean an early dusk, loretta looked up, the grey sky low, two-by-two on the bus, water and anger in our house, though she spoke of rainbows, reachin' the roof with soakin' shoes, river's up, where'd she go?, you're wiser, oh loretta, you're wiser, and only twenty-five, during the tv floatin' by, through our room and out the door, loretta, she prayed for what to do, if it rained any more, she was a wash-cloth wet with love, i was not, she was mine, i'm in the olive tree next door, river's up to my eyes, you're wiser, oh loretta, much wiser, and only just in time