The Shadow Life

She has no idea just what she means to me When she waters her garden She grows her own works at night when she cannot sleep And comes to meet me every morning She goes to bed and she's dreaming of a secret beach I dream of living off her farm And by the book by the power that's still left in me I could keep her steady in my arms Cause every night I pick her up I let her down I tie her up With all my nervous chatter She shuts me up and says enough And turns the lamp down low And we can get down to what we're after We do the time cause the time is worth taking We put the time in and let it all go She keeps her garden raised like a baby She puts the time in and lets it all grow And in the light I'm waiting for ya In the darkness our shadow life will do In the light If you want me to There's a city buried underneath the ocean here And there's a boneyard in the back There's a moment when I saw the star inside your eye There's a reason that it took so long to take this time And if the moon is out we can lay it by the city beach And if the fruit is low we can pick it from your wicked tree If the writing's on the wall I could watch our letters burn And if you're working 'neath the moon I'll stay 'till you return Cause every night I pick her up I tear her down I tie her up With all this nervous chatter She shuts me up and says that's enough Turns the lamps down low So we can get down to what we're after And in the light I'm waiting for ya In the darkness our shadow life will do In the light If you want me to If you want me to