Daddy drove the wheels off a flatbed Ford Flies found the hole in the old screen door Granny said the dress that my sister wore To church wasn't long enough Momma poured grease in a Chrisco can Put a hundred thousand miles on a Sears box fan Uncle Joe put tobacco on my hand where The yellow jacket's torn me up And I ain't making this up Oh, you think I'm talking crazy In a different language you might not understand Oh, that's alright That's just the kind of life that made me who I am Just taking my mind on a visit Back in time cos I miss it You wouldn't know how to love it like I love it Unless you lived it And man, I lived it Granddaddy smoked Salems with the windows up Drove me around in the back of that truck We drank from the hose and spit in the cup We all survived somehow Them old Duke boys, they're flattening their heels Hollywood was fake, wrestling was real Wouldn't dream of spending that two dollar bill From pushing a lawnmower 'round I go back there right now Oh, you think I'm talking crazy In a different language you might not understand Oh, that's alright That's just the kind of life that made me who I am Just taking my mind on a visit Back in time cos I miss it You wouldn't know how to love it like I love it Unless you lived it And man, I lived it Oh man, I lived it Oh, you think I'm talking crazy In a different language you might not understand Oh, that's alright That's just the kind of life that made me who I am Just taking my mind on a visit Back in time cos I miss it You wouldn't know how to love it like I love it Unless you lived it And man, I lived it Oh man, I lived it

There's a place I know of in the western state Lost to any map that you can find Streets are made of cobble getting older Houses fade like coal after a fire I don't know where I'm going Somewhere I don't need to have a plan I don't know who I'm fighting now Anyone who falls across my hand Say no more, I'm gone And who is emptier than who? Still you're waiting there against the black Just to see me coming back But I don't think I'm likely to do that I'm gonna be so different if you find me You wont even realise I'm your man Slow and sure the coast will redefine me Turn me into sycamore and sand I don't know where I'm going Somewhere where the water meets the land I don't know why your troubling now Nobody can change who I now am Say no more, I'm gone And who is emptier than who? Still you're waiting there against the black Just to see me coming back But I don't think I'm likely to do that No I don't think I'm likely to do that

Noone's ever coming round here no not ever anymore Rapping on the window or a'knocking on the kitchen door Noone's really taking any trouble like I used to see People dropping by as if the twilight was an amnesty Saying this is harder than I ever thought was possible Can't hide it anymore because the truth is indestructible Wear it like a sickness that I didn't catch too easily Like I'm waiting till someone with a shovel comes to bury me Silence has got to be broken Sleeping and then you are woken Eyes come open to see Something has got to be spoken Everything must be forsaken You' ve been taken From me Free you But I can't free you No I can't free you Whatever I do Have you ever suffered through the days of summer lost in blue Hoping that the one thing that you need will heed and come to you Watching as the clock forgets and drops its sense of courtesy Listening to songs that once were friends but now are enemies Silence has got to be broken Sleeping and then you are woken Eyes come open to see Something has got to be spoken Everything must be forsaken You' ve been taken From me Free you But I can't free you No I can't free you Whatever I do

So soon does every word that you say Become the breath of my day That I breath like a ghost And without a daytime to live With the infrequence you give I'm like noise in the street Cos we were a kind of fractured (parade) With all the noise and the (frayed) But no dear ... You once said that I was something to keep That I was a messed (up) ... Now I'm not even there Broke apart Because there was no place to start With you But its alright Cos its all wrong So you won't have to stay that long With what we had How could you miss And what you mean Is not all this But its alright Cos its all wrong So you won't have to stay that long With what we had How could you miss And what you mean Is not all this And without a daytime to live And with the infrequence you give I'm like noise in the street I broke apart Because there was no place to start With you But its alright Cos its all wrong So you won't have to stay that long With what we had How could you miss And what you mean Is not all this But its alright Cos its all wrong So you won't have to stay that long With what we had How could you miss And what you mean Is not all this Yeah its alright Cos its all wrong | yeah its alright So you won't have to stay that long | its all wrong With what we had How could you miss And what you mean Is not all there

There's so little left of you That how can I refuse To be your skeleton Is all that I can do And if we forget all our ways All the habit from our days What reason resonates To never grow old To never grow old To never be found To never be solved To never been seen To never be known Like skeletons Like skeletons Skeletons Crumble if we move What is going to bring us down Tonight And leave us limping all alone And out of sight Like skeletons Like skeletons Skeletons Crumble if we move There's so little left of you That how can I refuse To be your skeleton Is all that I can do Never grow up To never grow old To never be found To never be solved To never been seen Never be known Like skeletons

As long as we are just the two And nothing changes, nothing moves We will become two people Time has undone And so (we'd) quietly comes true You have this need for something new No mystery shows are stupid Phased through its truth When I see you move under certain light I'm lost in visions of us both in the night Its not so easy just to see you (wave) When you constitute the breath of my day Want to give you something new As long as we are just the two And nothing changes, nothing moves We will become two people Time has undone When I see you move under certain light I'm lost in visions of us both in the night Its not so easy just to see you (wave) When you constitute the breath of my day Want to give you something new So stay tonight Quietly Half awake But half asleep There's no one home No one's here So quietly Stay with me Stay tonight Quietly Stay with me Quietly Stay tonight Stay tonight