After the Smoke Clears - If These Trees Could Talk

Imagine if the life that you though you shared wasn't really there It was made up in your mind, could be anyone, anywhere 'Cause you'd be living in a world of your own design, undermined In another place, other space and time As the dust clears and it all starts to disappear It may get harder, 'cause you just restarted And wherever you are, land on another star It may get harder, 'cause you just restarted You better get real, real, realize that the situation is going nowhere Because you act so tough, I totally lost control So please, try to understand that if I could, I'd call, and I would be there And if I didn't hurt so much, you know I'd give you it all You know I'd give you it all Imagine if the friend that you thought you knew wasn't really true It just existed in your head, the reflection used wasn't you Completely all the way, could be anywhere, any time 'Cause there was a shift in the paradigm As the dust clears and it all starts to disappear It may get harder, 'cause you just restarted And wherever you are, land on another star It may get harder, 'cause you just restarted You better get real, real, realize that the situation is going nowhere Because you act so tough, I totally lost control So please, try to understand that if I could, I'd call, and I would be there And if I didn't hurt so much, you know I'd give you it all It may get harder, 'cause you just restarted (you know I'd give you it all) It may get harder, 'cause you just restarted

I've been smokin' Mary Jane Been seeing shapes up in my head Of places that I've always seen and memories that never left Oh, they never left And oh, no, I've been gone for quite some time And I know that I just keep it in the back of my mind And as the moss clears up my lungs when I'm back home Oh, I'm reminded of how Oh, how I miss her, sitting out by the river Listening as the trees talk, all behind my back (yeah) Oh, I think I'll stay wherever the wind blows (blows) Let it come when I don't know, 'cause I don't know myself Anymore (Ooh, ooh, ooh) I'm just tryna to find myself (Ah-ooh, ooh, ooh) a little more And as I hook out on the waves I see white sails runnin' in the craze through the forest I'm trying to make proud of my name 'Cause I still don't have the strength to go back to my dad's grave And tell him everything, oh Oh, how I miss her, sitting out by the river Listening as the trees talk all behind my back (yeah) Oh, I think I'll stay wherever the wind blows Let it come when I don't know 'cause I don't know myself Anymore (Ah-ooh) hey, (ooh, ooh) I'm just tryna find myself (Ah-ooh) hey, (ooh, ooh) a little more Don't think that I could forget what you say You thought that I couldn't save you, but you can't get back the past 'Cause once it's left, it's left in flames and I'm too used to burnin' down (Oh-ooh, ooh, ooh) but now you're gone Oh, how I miss her, sitting out by the river Listening as the trees talk, all behind my back (yeah) Oh, I think I'll stay wherever the wind blows Let it come when I don't know 'cause I don't know myself Anymore

Been about three days and I'm comin' back I'm about four minutes from a heart attack And I think you make me a maniac But you don't know, oh Two years and we in between But we both been here since we 17 Here we go, fist fight in a limousine But they don't know And we both hope there's something But we bo-both keep fronting And it's a closed discussion And I'm thinking, "Damn, if these walls could talk" (oh-oh-oh) Well, they'd be like (oh-oh-oh) "Shit is crazy, right?" (Oh-oh-oh) I ain't your baby no more Been about two weeks since you went away I'm about halfway through a Cabernet There I go, I'm wastin' a Saturday Sittin' at home Told my new roommate not to let you in But you're so damn good with a bobby pin Now you gon' play me like a violin Hittin' these notes And we both hope there's something But we bo-both keep fronting And it's a closed discussion And I'm thinking, "Damn, if these walls could talk" (oh-oh-oh) Well, they'd be like (oh-oh-oh) "Shit is crazy, right?" (Oh-oh-oh) I ain't your baby no more (oh-oh-oh) (Oh-oh-oh) Hey! (Oh-oh-oh) No more (oh-oh-oh) I ain't your baby no more

I watched you hide the pain too many times Much too often you don't say what's in your heart But you don't have to say it's over, I can see it in your eyes 'Cause if tears could talk, you just said goodbye Without a word, you took our picture from the wall And your dresses from the closet down the hall When I tried to talk it over, you just turned away and cried But if tears could talk, you just said goodbye And if mirrors spoke, they'd tell me I'm a fool For never loving you the way I wanted to And if silence says it all, I guess it means our love has died And if tears could talk, you just said goodbye And if mirrors spoke, they'd tell me I'm a fool For never loving you the way I wanted to And if silence says it all, I guess it means our love has died And if tears could talk, you just said goodbye Oh, if tears could talk, you just said goodbye

He was there when I started In Knoxville, Tennessee Openin' for Patty Loveless November of '93 Four friends, Mom, and Uncle Butch And the crowd was really small He'd say, I was a scared kid If this bus could talk Some nights, we'd dance with the devil Some nights, we prayed to the Lord Between bathproom passes and Margherita glasses He was never really bored We were starry eyed dreamers Bouncin' off the wall Oh, the stories he could tell If this bus could talk He's seen pool halls, in Texas Down at the Corndog County Fair Girls, that we made cry Some crowds, that didn't care When Bobby rolled us down in 'Bama He kept rockin', through it all Oh, the stories he could tell If this bus could talk Late night conversations Full of drunk philosophy On politics and religion Football and family The loved ones, that we missed An' the lovers, that we lost Oh, the secrets he could share If this bus could talk He's seen Virginia Beach Caught in a hurricane Heroes, I wish I'd never met But, he ain't namin' names We learned the call of the road At the Grizzly Rose, and we had a ball Oh, the stories he could tell If this bus could talk 20 years of summers An' I hope it never ends Been down so many highways Full of twists, and turns, and bends We caught lightnin' in a bottle Somehow, we survived it all Oh, the stories he could tell If this bus could talk As I leave the stage Still high, from your applause He'd tell you, that I love you If this bus could talk If this bus could talk If this bus could talk If this bus could talk