He eats an avocado Writes novels on her navel Climbs out her bedroom window While she's asleep She speaks of venom cobras Dark mater, supernovas Car crashes and tsunamis That bring the rain He talks with great bravado Drinks baby shirley temples Fights with a palm of marbles Does it hurt? Does it hurt? She squeeze the honey bottle On an over-ripe tomato Don't care when all the ants go Right up her skirt sponsored links Nobody Knows Where the time goes Where the grind grows Nobody knows Nobody knows Where the time goes Where the grind grows Nobody knows They met one summer party Eating banh mi with the cabbies Throwing empties at the police Oh how they laughed She cut a smokey figure She splintered in his fingers So deep that even tweezers Couldn't pull her out They danced in tiny halos
Like moths around a candle Or atoms too unstable But they don't care Nobody knows Where the time goes Where the grind grows Nobody knows Nobody knows Where the time goes Where the grind grows Nobody knows We leave a healthy corpse We beat a dying horse We leave the headlights on We write a swan song Will you get eulogized? Will you have apologized? Were you running high tonight? Will you even care? Nobody knows Where the time goes Where the grind grows Nobody knows Nobody knows Where the time goes Where the grind grows Nobody knows Nobody knows Where the time goes Where the grind grows Nobody knows Nobody knows Where the time goes Where the grind grows Nobody knows Nobody knows Where the time goes Where the grind grows Nobody knows