Children in bloom cooking in the sun
Waiting for a room of our own
Leave my sister alone
she don't deserve this
She is a flower and I am a flower
and we are all alone

I gotta get out on my own
I gotta get up from this waiting at home
I gotta get out of this sunlight
It's melting my bones
I gotta get up from this slumber get myself home

All these wasted dreams
waiting for the sun to open up my heart to anyone
Bring me some rain
cause I'm dying and I can't get this damn thing closed again

I gotta get out on my own
I gotta get up from this waiting at home
I gotta get out of this sunlight
It's melting my bones
I gotta get up from this slumber get myself home

Where's the funhouse this year?
The fairground's deserted and all the skies don't seem as near
Nicole's my oldest friend
but the altar is empty and she'll never be a little girl again

I gotta get out on my own
I gotta get up from this waiting at home
I gotta get out of this sunlight
It's melting my bones
I gotta get up from this slumber get myself home

I can't find my way home

words & music by Adam F. Duritz
Published © 1996 EMI Blackwood Music Inc./
Jones Falls Music (adm. by EMI-Blackwood Music Inc.) BMI.
© 1996 Geffen Records, Inc.