Sunlit Groove

Black marker bleedin' through the cardboard edge

Careful letters lined up on the window ledge

Spit on my thumb to rub a smear away

Smells like cardboard, paint,

and yesterday

I spelled it wrong

so you'd know it was mine

Yeah, I spelled it wrong so you'd know it was mine Look

close at the letters,

read between the lines (yeah)

Corporate banner went up across the street

Glossy vinyl in the summer heat

But the sun-bleached ink is fadin' fast to gray

While they're countin' up their pennies at the end of the day

We got

sticky quarters

pilin' on the crate

Yeah, there's aid hidin' inside lemonaide

I spelled it wrong

so you'd know it was mine

Yeah, I spelled it wrong so you'd know it was mine Look

close at the letters,

read between the lines (ooh-ooh)

Like a blurry tattoo

on a heavy arm

Or a grease-stained recipe from the family farm

A kid's birthday banner

hangin' on the wall With a crossed-out letter standin' proud and tall

(proud and tall)

I spelled it wrong

so you'd know it was mine

Yeah, I spelled it wrong so you'd know it was mine Look

close at the letters,

read between the lines

(yeah, yeah,

yeah)

I spelled it wrong

so you'd know it was mine!

I spelled it wrong

so you'd know it was mine!

(we spelled it wrong!) (yeah,

you know it's mine)