I wanted to play in the park When the world was bright and the grass was clean Now I just sit in the velvet dark Counting the teeth of a rusted machine The carousel horses are carved in bone And I’m the only statue left alone Oh it’s a long long way back to then Where the shadows rot and the lights grow thin I wanted to play in the park my dear Just once again before the skies grow clear The sandbox is filled with the ash of time We traded our futures for a nursery rhyme The swing sets hang like broken necks Parsing through the wreckage of our little wrecks You left your jacket on the wooden bench Now the night air has a bitter stench Oh it’s a long long way back to then Where the shadows rot and the lights grow thin I wanted to play in the park my dear Just once again before the skies grow clear I practiced my smile in the shattered glass Waiting for a season that would never pass It’s a clever arithmetic this game we play Stuck in the amber of yesterday Oh it’s a long long way back to then Where the shadows rot and the lights grow thin I wanted to play in the park my dear Just once again before the skies grow clear The sun forgot to rise... Still waiting on the bench... I wanted to play in the park.