When the sun's too hot, and my old man's not Well I stumble outside the door And I'm asking myself if I haven't been through all this To darn many times before I gave up singing my half done songs When the money ran out before the rhymes And I gave up loving my one sided lovers When I couldn't believe in their lies I used to think it was easy, honey I used to think it was alright I used to think it was simple enough Until scratching my way became my way of life I used to think it was easy, honey I used to think it was alright I used to think it was simple enough Until scratching my way became my way of life Well the night's far along My old man's out somewhere gone And I'm thinking it's time for me to go I never loved him like he wanted me to That's something he must already know Look the night is cold, my shoes are old And I don't much like the rain And his bed's much softer than the road is hard So I might stay on it then I used to think it was easy, honey I used to think it was alright I used to think it was simple enough Until scratching my way became my way of life I used to think it was easy, honey I used to think it was alright I used to think it was simple enough Until scratching my way became my way of life I used to think it was easy, honey Yeah, I used to think it was alright I used to think it was simple enough Until scratching my way became my way of life I used to think it was easy, honey I used to think it was alright I used to think it was simple enough Until scratching my way became my way of life I used to think it was easy, honey I used to think it was alright I used to think it was simple enough

All in all I don't know what to believe But I told my friends I'm not sure if they're real And I'm peering in mirrors for proof that I'm here Half in half out of this broken machine Sick to the bone with some spectral disease Came back from the void with the void still in me Oh How I wish I was here How I wish I was here Watching my life on a de-tuned TV The pictures I see are just shapes on a screen Come shake me out of my slow motion dream Here comes another day lost within the fade out And I'm freaking out Don't let this be what I'm about, I'm about Oh How I wish I was here How I wish I was here Oh How I wish I was here How I wish I was here Oh How I wish I was here How I wish I was here Oh How I wish I was here How I wish I was here Oh How I wish I was here How I wish I was here How I wish I was here Oh All it would take, is a whisper or a kiss To seal my fate, within the abyss Anesthesia All is seeing, self-deceiving I'll find a way home A way home How I wish I was here How I wish I was here Acid mother Resin father I am blind

I got a job, and my name's Joe Spend my days at the Texaco Never show up late Never show up drunk 'Cause when I get half lit, I'm a loaded gun Made a couple of wrong turns, did county time I do everything I can to stay between the lines I got a couple of good buddies that all stop in Say "it's good to see you brother, man, how you been?" I can't complain, I'm doin' alright Sleepin' pretty good, staying dry Thank the Lord every mornin' with a sweet Amen For how far I've come from, where I been So here's to good days, better tomorrows And a light, at the end of the bottle Some battles are fought on foreign shores And some are fought behind closed doors Some fall from grace Some lose their wings Some find the peace, salvation brings I got a couple of good buddies that all stop in Say "it's good to see you brother, man, how you been?" I can't complain, I'm doin' alright Sleepin' pretty good, staying dry Thank the Lord every mornin' with a sweet Amen For how far I've come from, where I been So here's to good days, better tomorrows And a light, at the end of the bottle Here's to good days, here's to livin' And here's to old sins, being forgiven And a bunch of good buddies that all drop in Say "it's good to see you brother, man, how you been?" I can't complain, I'm doin' alright Sleepin' pretty good, staying dry Thank the Lord every mornin' with a sweet Amen For how far I've come from, where I been So here's to good days, better tomorrows And a light, at the end of the bottle At the end of the bottle

There are stars in the southern sky Southward as you go There is moonlight and moss in the trees Down the Seven Bridges Road Now I have loved you like a baby Like some lonesome child And I have loved you in a tame way And I have loved you wild Sometimes there's a part of me Has to turn from here and go Runnin' like a child from these warm stars Down the Seven Bridges Road There are stars in the southern sky And if e'er you decide you should go There is a taste of thyme-sweetened honey Down the Seven Bridges Road