CENTERVILLE

And so we go away

New lives from a window display

My pocket’s full of Monopoly money

The weather’s cool with a chance of sunny

But it doesn’t bring us closer

No, it doesn’t bring us close to Centerville

And so we speed along

Outrun all the things we’ve done wrong

Your bag is filled up with maps and hand lotion

Well, all those things may help us cross an ocean

But they haven’t brought us closer

No, they haven’t brought us close to Centerville

Your state of mind’s not in the state of mine

From behind our own Maginot lines

Warning shots fired

Hot words aspire to a longer burn

What if we tear so much of it down we can’t return?

And so we’ll wait and see

What turns out eventually

The noisy streets and hotels of a new town

These memories collected and reduced down

I hope they bring us closer

Yeah, I hope they bring us close to Centerville