After laughter there was awkward silence We needed one more round to make headway Taking off our sober faces finding much less somber things to say and after plastered, pounding fisted, laughter disastrous if we should loose our nerve closing open mouths, they're so unsightly when they're not speaking finer words and its alright by me if you prefer being quite I'm quite content watching the lashes dance above your eye lids its hard to take things in when you're engulfed in endless noise I'm overjoyed, to see the beauty I was blind to, when I still my voice After laughter two cars driving onward and outward where they will soon divide the shell that I return isn't merely where my faithful heart resides. after silence I slip into the evening I-10 should take me right back home to you this scene I'm seeing nightly, half tempted to go, but oh, I never do and its alright with me as I lay in the quite I'm quite content with dreaming, there's no way I can deny it its hard to take things in when you're engulfed in endless noise I'm overjoyed, to see the beauty I was blind to, when I still my voice