All clear, good Lord Did well to be ignored Your falling temperature like cooling kisses All through your head A made up water's edge A summer gone on tabling fabled blisses And I'd love to see you waving From the far side of the swim Gathered in by a waiting troop of the open-hearted Where colour field meets canvas And the picture breathes you in Where all the stories meant for you have already started Bright girl, dead town Walking tall but blown around The secret chainmail gown of your father's blessing Bright girl, dead town Open mouths for miles around I still see you keeping those dough boys guessing And I'd love to see you waving From the far side of the swim Gathered in by a waiting troop of the open-hearted Where colour field meets canvas And the picture breathes you in Where all the stories meant for you have already started Bright girl, dead town Bright girl, dead town Bright girl, dead town Open mouths for miles around Bright girl, dead town Bright girl, dead town Bright girl, dead town Bright girl, dead town Open mouths for miles around Bright girl, dead town

Where are you? Will your dreams come true? You're a fool Aimless pursuit Look at you In a field of doom You will lose You've been warned now Be safe, don't do that These fields are gonna swallow you Be safe, don't do that These fields are gon' devour you Be safe, don't do that These fields are gonna swallow you Be safe, don't do that These fields are gon' devour you I'm walking the fields I'm walking the fields, yeah I'm walking the fields Be safe, don't do that These fields are gon' devour you (devour you) This ain't meant for you That's what they tell me Even if that is true This is my journey This is my journey I won't take a knee This is not for you This is for me Breathe in, breathe out These fields, they won't devour me Breathe in, breathe out These fields, they gon' empower me Breathe in, breathe out These fields, they won't devour me Breathe in, breathe out These fields, they gon' empower me I'm walking the fields I'm walking the fields, yeah I'm walking the fields Be safe, don't do that These fields are gon' devour you These fields are gon' devour you These fields are gon' devour you (devour you) Never learned my lesson as a child, I was wild Staring at the moon, thought I'd never learn how to hide Drowning in my feelings but I never quite drowned Field full of wolves, yeah, we're fighting it out

The in-laws are waiting the games have begun The cell phone keeps ringing

I've had enough of this small town bullshit I'm not stayin' in school I'm makin' good dough workin' with my brother Cleanin' out pools I'm going out to California And man it won't be long As soon as I get my license Color me gone Oh knock it off Johnny Man, your livin' in your head You ain't even got a car And those chicks don't believe a word ya said But you're doin' all the talkin' So I just keep quiet And this'll probably go no where But I can't blame ya for tryin' It's just us kids hangin' round the park at night Hangin' round 'neath the vapor light We got no drugs and we got no guns Not even botherin' anyone I don't have to wear a necktie I don't have to punch a clock I started up a dot com company And man it rocks Won't you come with me down to Mexico In the winter with some friends? My divorce will be final Along about then Meanwhile I got a gram and a real good ride And don't you know I hurt way down inside? Just us kids in the parking lot Out here givin' it all we got We don't want to get old and die And there ain't nothing we wouldn't try Ya know we could really have it all Our kid's gonna graduate next fall I could take retirement in 10 years It's a damn short movie How'd we ever get here? [Repeat x2] Just us kids hangin' out today Watchin' our long hair turnin' gray Not so skinny maybe not so free Not so many as we used to be [Repeat x3] Not so skinny maybe not so free Not so many as we used to be

The hurricane party's windin' down And we're all waitin' for the end And I don't want another drink I only want that last one again He gave me such a fine glow, smokin' slow Now I should probably be homeward-bound There's just no one to talk to when the lines go down I guess that in the morning I'll go Lookin' for my grey-striped cat My old house can take the weather So I'm not too concerned about that It was built to take the wind back in nineteen-and-ten When this was one damned fine town But now there's no one to talk to when the lines go down Candles flickered on the back bar And the building was shakin' with the wind I bought a whiskey for the gypsy And she turned my leather back into skin Just a fleeting sense of that rare suspense I once thought made the world go round But now there's no one to talk to when the lines go down Open up your back screen door Let me see your face once more My hands are cold and my feet so sore And I can't go on this way And the thoughts come too fast And too many to keep count Best just to let 'em on through Now I'm breaking those ol' glass insulators with my old 22 Off the telephone polls as a half dollar rolls Across the knuckles of a rodeo clown There's just no one to talk to when the lines go down My one great love, my God, I can feel her still She ran off to California and now she's living In those Hollywood hills With some bullfrog prince I've not seen her since Though she calls when he's out of town And there's no one to talk to when the lines go down Open up your back screen door Let me in your space once more I was looking for an easy score But it just don't work that way Some insurance man biker Is yellin' out for one more beer But a part-time pirate just can't get Much respect around here We got our problems too Man we'll get to you In just a minute, sit your drunk ass down Yeah, there's no one to talk to when the lines go down Now there's water up past the wheel wells of my Ford And I don't guess that it'll run But I left a pack of Winston's on the dash Could you fetch 'em for me son? The morning's first cigarette, that's as good as it gets All day, I should know by now That there's no one to talk to when the lines go down