Come outside and we'll take a walk 
you can laugh out loud no one will talk 
go barefoot and never feel obscene 
there's a girl over there by the windowsill 
ad it looks like she got some time to kill 
and she says "nothing ever matters and what if it did? " 
but you don't think that its so strange 
yeah and don't act so surprised 
well she's quite content in a state street state of mind

there's a house next door where they never sleep 
and there's music coming from up the street 
its the song you know and so you sing the tune 
and we try to talk above the den 
about the world and the shape its in 
and then we laugh 
cause nothing seems to matter today 
but don't think that that its so strange 
and worthless in your eyes 
well we're quite content in a state street state of mind

and the words speak the joy 
that underlies the pain 
the pain 
the pain 
the pain

well come outside and we'll take a walk 
years fly by, the plants trail off 
and you think of a time before you lost your way 
and the music played and the man displayed 
and the girl over there by the window would say 
nothing really matters anyway 
you don't think that its so strange 
yeah you don't act so surprised 
well she's quite content in a state street state of mind 
and he's quite content in a state street state of mind 
well we're all content in state street state of mind