If I Knew Now

If I Knew Now - Jade Sylvan

Back then we'd paint with sidewalk chalk

An MC escher tabletop

Invent dimensions with old blankets

Brooms and pins all interlocked

If you don't know we'll find a way

Oh we could ride bikes in the rain

And never fear our skulls were made

From latex diamond marmalade

But table legs and chalk and bones will splinter all to dust

Bruise the fruit of flesh and whisper bitter not to trust

The humble back the hungry mouth the figure breaking down

But tasks demand their undertaking

Tasks demand their undertaking

Tasks demand their undertaking

Tasks demand their undertaking now

But I guess that's what you get by getting older

If I knew now what I knew then

If I knew now what I knew then

If I knew now what I knew then

I'd never break my back again

We stormed the kremlin in those days

With flags of red we parted ways

We stood outside in wind and hail

To take the stage and tell our tale

But all those things we knew were real

Got left behind the steering wheels

Of slick bandwagon gravy trains

And memories go numb with pain

Now when we serve our guests with the expensive pottery

We speak of war and china and the bear economy

The title deed the law degree the books upon the shelf

Till no ones more a stranger than

No ones more a stranger than

No ones more a stranger than

No ones more a stranger than ourselves

But I guess that's what you get by getting older

If I knew now what I knew then

If I knew now what I knew then

If I knew now what I knew then

I'd never cash a check again

I remember when our hands would touch

And nothing seemed to matter much

And when I looked into your eyes

I saw all of our former lives

I loved you as a dandy-fop

As an old man in a barber shop

As a virgin on a mountain top

Dance with me we'll never stop

Though changes over lifetimes may be superficial gels

Changes here from year to year detach divorce repel

I still remember sleeping with your chest to nest my head

Now I nestle underneath the

Now I nestle underneath the

Now I nestle underneath the

Now I nestle underneath the bed

But I guess that's what you get by getting older

If I knew now what I knew then

If I knew now what I knew then

If I knew now what I knew then

I'd never fall in love again