Wack Jack - Hamilton Leithauser

Kids are scratching up the walk

Across the street and down the block

I wish you’d stuck around to watch the night fall

Smack your hands against the wall

Louise Bogan and Robert Frost

Popped off the shelf when you went through the door

Singing

«Years from today

When your name is just a name

And my love is a couple candles

Twinkling on your cake

That burn won’t hurt you any more

But I’ll still keep your picture lying in a drawer»

Kids are scratching up the walk

Four letter words in rainbow colored chalk

Sweeping dust under the rug

Oh if only we could talk

«Years away

When your name is just a name

You’ll be counting up your pennies

'Til I’m laughing in my grave

Oh I know, years away

When your name is just a name

And my love’s a couple candles

Twinkling in your cake

That burn won’t hurt you any more

But I’ll still keep your picture lying in a drawer»

When I was a boy I could laugh at it laugh at it

Now I wonder how I got that hold on me hold on me

When I was a boy I could laugh at it laugh at it

When I was a boy I could laugh at it laugh at it