Hum Along

You'll never hear this song You'll never see the movie in my head But you infest my sleep, and your figure creeps Through my walls and hums above my bed I know your name, and that you're photogenic and tall But I've never heard you talk And there's something about you That stabs me right through It isn't right for me to paint your picture Every night, but I do (I can't find sleep) And it feels so wrong (I breathe too deep), to sing this song (into the sky) But maybe (as I walk and sing), somehow, you'll hear me (you'll hear a song) And hum along You'll hum along, you'll hum along, you'll hum along And I've only seen you once, at your graduation No cinematic glow or soft rock soundtrack And I watched you move and breathe and cry And it felt so wrong It isn't right for me to paint your picture Every night, but I do (I can't find sleep) And it feels so wrong (I breathe too deep), to sing this song (into the sky) But maybe (as I walk and sing), somehow, you'll hear me (you'll hear a song) And hum along You'll hum along, you'll hum along, you'll hum along Maybe you'd be kidnapped by pirates And they would take you to their hideout As pirates often do But I'd find the secret map And I would vigilante-bushwhack Through the jungles of Peru Just to save you and I'd take you north to Mexico Where you would tell me your life story on the steps of a Mayan temple Where we'd camp singing nonsense songs in 12 bars to the jaguars, until you'd sense me Your eyes convincing, and I would kiss you like a hero in the half-light Dryer sheets and peach shampoo, the smell of palm leaves, I'd sleep against you Until the natives found us, but they would crown us king and queen And we could stay there, spend our days there, eating guava by the sea And I could understand your views and you could fall in love with me And while the silly human race talks to droids in outer-space We grow old and laugh about this song And between the jungle and the stars, you sing nonsense songs in 12 bars to me And in my sleep I hum along You'll never hear this song You'll never see the movie in my head