Phil Is Song (Learn To Stop Time) - Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band

Well there's a lady I know down in acapulco

Has a house up high on a hill

Don't bother bringing medicine

Her smile is your pill

There's a beach down the street just 100 feet

Going to stick my toes in the sand

There's a couple so old they're taking a stroll

But they're still holding hands

If there's a secret they have well I'd like to know

They could whisper it right in my ear

They said open your eyes because you're living blind

And know love is greater than fear

Because I've been up and I've been down

No I've been around and around

Well there's a girl I see when I go back out east

She let's me sleep in her bed

In the morning we talk about everything

What she learned from the books she's read

There's a store on the corner that sells anything

A simple man might need

Cigarettes and coffee

Lotto tickets just to dream

There's a park on the way where I like to go

Just to sit and watch the folks

Kids playing ball

Their mamas on the phone

Because I've been here and I've been there

With you I feel safe and I feel scared

But if I could learn to stop time

Don't you know I would

How sweet it would be

Only if I could

There's a friend I have she up and packed her bag

And headed way up north

Turned her back on everything she knew

To brainwash some new foolish fool

If I had to guess he ain't much different than me

Pretty smart but fairly dumb

Fall in line behind a pretty smile

And a phony selfish charm

But the past is the past and I don't look back

But sometimes she'll call my phone

Open the wound just to rub some salt

She's a miserable person but it ain't her fault

Because I've been here and I've been there

But with you I feel safe and I feel scared

I've been up and I've been down

No I've been around and around

But if I could learn to stop time

Don't you know I would

How sweet it would be

Only if I could