Hello Exile - The Menzingers

Her language was a perfect phrase

Her playful prose followed me for days

Down the alleyways of my desire

To their final resting place

In a vacation town where I lived year round

She migrated here with the summer crowds

And we fell in love under impossible smiles

Life was perfect if just for a little while

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Hello exile

And a thousand years may come and go

We may never meet another soul

Here on our own island of Elba in the Poconos

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Hello exile

And we bathed in the sun

Cut our jeans into shorts

Outstared every star in the sky

Under the cover of nowhere the present was a present

It looked beautiful on you every night

But we knew it would end yeah we knew it all along

It was a future never reconciled

It’s as if letting your shackled heart feel loved was more difficult than total

denial

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Hello exile

And a thousand years may come and go

I may never meet another soul

Here on my own island of Elba in the Poconos

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Hello exile

Now I imagined her memory would fade in the void

She’d only reappear every now and again

I’d smile at the thought of us

Go back to my day

But that was purely wishful thinking

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Hello exile

And a thousand years may come and go

I may never meet another soul

Here on my own island of Elba in the Poconos

And just play the last set of my mind

Our passions were real from the summertime

Swimming in the Delaware wringing out your long blonde hair

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Hello exile

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Hello exile