They're standing by the ropes on the sand by the beach and we're trying not to take pictures but the children are climbing and one falls down and sits his eyes squeeze together his mouth open in a little 'o' as his mother bends to brush the sand off his knees and I want to be like him I want to climb that rope barefoot climb that rope up up but instead I stay where I am on the sandy green ledge and it's strange because you are just the way you are and we are watching the water as the sun shifts below us and between us and Eddie is there and he's tall very tall and we are swinging on the swings we are swimming on the swings and we are looking at each other and we are soaring higher higher and I am trying not to try so damn hard but you're so beautiful as you swing with your shoes off and let yourself be seen the bikers ride down the path and there are wooden planks where you can walk but you aren't really walking you are here like yeah baby give me some of that 1 2 3 my lovely little cloud of hello and it'll be fine where we are it'll be fine just keep walking like they're walking on the beach the sun the everything and we are climbing the ropes now we are climbing the mountain driving up soaring through the green on concrete the cars are following us the cars are behind us we are the cars the extension of our homes our boxes but that's just how it is you've got nowhere to go and you've got to drive to get there how nice would it be if we could record everything that we will never have and that's when we go home turn on the drone box fall asleep on the floor and right now well earlier yesterday when we were getting ice cream on the pier you called and said well hello well hello and you've got to admit you're not going anywhere and it's a shame cause at the end of the world you have to know the number or you may get lost and one time I called you when I was driving down the Oregon coast but you were at a party and didn't answer I called you three times because there were no vacancies the sorry signs were banging in the wind and I wanted to find a parking spot and sleep but I was conditioned for a life in a bed I didn't have a chance without you but you were at that party and you didn't answer you called back three hours later when I was already driving with the sixteen wheelers swiping turns that weren't even there the ocean to my right but it wasn't the same it wasn't the same like when there was someone to believe in and it's beautiful down here the beaches here are beautiful but you aren't here are you
you're just the way it is.