If I had it ever so slightly my way I might always be inches from sleeping Seems when I start to dream It takes a cavalry just to wake me And if the sky would just keep to a shade That had as much as I have to say It'd be tangerine Fighting the fade back to navy No, I did not say it to hear it back Yes, I still meant it when I let the door slam I can't stake a claim There's no ground left to stand There's just songs without stages Clouds that gather but never rain If I had it ever so slightly my way I might change my name to January 'cause Tell me what other word has as much a way To live out its fury No, I did not say it to hear it back Yes, I still meant it when I let the door slam I can't stake a claim There's no ground left to stand There's just songs without stages Clouds that gather but never rain All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put me back together again So I put a thread in my own steady hand And sat there and started sewin' No, I did not say it to hear it back Yes, I still meant it when I let the door slam I can't stake a claim There's no ground left to stand There's just songs without stages Clouds that gather but keep themselves from raining