When you came behind the counter You moved just like a marionette Just a fragile apparition Of the person that I once met Seemed like the world could see The skeleton beneath the skin Another puritan that never lost the Taste for sin I always know that you're in trouble by the Color that you dye your hair And the artificial lenses hiding all the thoughts That got you there One day they'll fall like scales and Let the light on through And it won't break my heart To see your brown eyes blue When all the rain stops rattling the roof tops After days of waiting for the other shoe to drop When it's easier, when it's easier Flip off the zenith if it isn't living up to its name We'll watch September fall to Grays and browns, and beige While across the river they'll be living Out their salad days Tied to the mast and rowing faster As the chorus sways When all the rain stops rattling the roof tops After days of waiting for the other shoe to drop When it's easier, when it's easier When it's easier, We won't mind When it all comes down, And the sun goes blind When it's easier, They'll know we were the vines that held The walls upright for all this time When all the rain stops rattling the roof tops After days of waiting for the other shoe to drop When it's easier, when it's easier When all the rain stops rattling the roof tops After days of waiting for the other shoe to drop When it's easier, when it's easier