Let's Steal Pineapples

Let’s steal pineapples today

I found this beach

With pineapples

Buried in the sand

And they belong to someone

But nobody knows who

And by the time the sun comes up

We can have them all

Cradled in our arms

At least five apiece

And run run run run run

I don’t have a better idea

For today

And the people I see on Friday’s

Say I need to keep myself busy

With something

I’m always plenty busy

Loving you

So…

But I told them how you spend weekends

On the couch

With the tv on mute

Asking me to bring you things

And I do

But it’s not good for me

Being cooped up

Nobody to talk to

Nowhere to go

That time when the sun goes down

And I only know about it

Because we have to turn the lights on

And we do

And the tv is still on

And we both get sleepy

And the next thing you know

It’s Monday

And I feel bad

Knowing we’re not going to get

All the weekends in the world

And we just lost one

We just lost…

So I found a beach

And it’s not far

And I don’t mind

Driving back there

And I can pay for gas

My grandma gave me money

And when we get there

There’s a little spot

Where you can put up a tent

And just camp for the night

And I thought that would be good

A little scary

But good

Good to be somewhere

Off a couch

With no tv

And we don’t need money for food

Because we can eat the pineapples we steal

If you’re worried about stealing

Don’t be

Because we’re good people

Just stealing

So we can survive

So it’s okay

That’s what I learned in church

And in school

It’s moral relativism

Do you know what that is?

I didn’t either

So you’re not stupid

If you don’t know

You’re not stupid at all

I just want to be a person
Doing an interesting thing

So when I go back on Friday

I can tell them

About this interesting thing I did

Over the weekend

And they’ll be so happy for me

And proud of me

And they’ll tell me how healthy I look

Because I got some sun

And fresh air

I don’t tell them about you

Because I don’t want them blaming you

For the stuff going on with you

Because it’s not your fault

But I want to help you

And I think--

I think it would help you

To get out of here

For a little bit

The same way it would help me

And that’s how you know

We’re together

And that we love each other

Because the same thing

Helps both of us

It’s just that both of us

Have to want it

We have to want the help

So let’s go steal pineapples

And then we can do other stuff

I’ll find other stuff for us to do

That’ll be my job, okay?

I can take care of it

I can take care

Of everything