She fell ill on Labor Day
Missed the party and everything
Picked up her lawn darts and went home
I told the kids at school
That she hated them all, which was cool
Cause from that point on they all gradually fell away

(inst. break)

By November she had lost
30 pounds and her teeth went soft
I know because I got to kiss her every day
No more school and no more sun
Darkened indoors in a world un-
daunted by those kids that like to play

Fire one down the driveway
(the kids are screaming)
Fire one down the driveway
(you best believe it)
Fire one down the driveway
(come out or we're all leaving)
Fire one into the dark

She hung posters of Fred Astaire
In her room at the top of the stairs
Sometimes I used to tap-dance my way in
She never told me but I knew
That it simply wasn't her heart that felt blue
But her mind just felt like it was slowly burning away

Fire one down the driveway
(the kids are screaming)
Fire one down the driveway
(you best believe it)
Fire one down the driveway
(come out or we're all leaving)
Fire one into the dark

You sink or swim
On somebody's whim
Hold it up now, hold it up now
Into the sun
Don't look too long
Into the song
Turn away now, turn away now
Turn away

(and)
Fire one down the driveway
(the kids are screaming)
Fire one down the driveway
(you best believe it)
Fire one down the driveway
(come out or we're all leaving)
Fire one into the dark

Coral Gables, July '05
Family vacation but she stayed behind
Finally she would get some time alone
That's just her way I guess
Of telling me that her new address
Would be somewhere I would eventually like to go