Wither on the Vine, Pt. 2 - The Old Ceremony

Verse 1: There are songs that birds don't sing to people There are secrets that keep right through to the end There are heroes who hide until forever And I'm singing this song for one of them Verse 2: He's the man that you passed on the road there The one with his life on the loose Going either somewhere or nowhere Going without me, without you Chorus: For he is this world's constant orphan Traveling out his lone time Living on apples from orchards Dying from grapes on the vine Verse 3: You can find him in big city winters Down where the mission bell cries And sorrow echoes through summer As he tries to close all his eyes Verse 4: You can find him in Pittsburgh in Christmas You can find him in Buffalo in June And he knows all the backroads between them Like the gypsy knows the moon Verse 5: And it's route 22 all over again Stick your thumb out and try to look like somebody's friend Look strong at the man, gentle at the girl And puzzled at the rest of the world Chorus. Living on apples from orchards Dying from grapes on the vine

Born to break or to last Is it all in the past? Is that a scar or a birth mark Retracing this cold heart And now I'm all out of thread I don't want to die here Keep chasing echoes in my mind Babe, it's a fine line, and I am so far over it And I know it Beneath it all it's still broken Cut me out, cut it open I can't do it anymore I can't do it I don't pay any mind To the dew upon the vine Does that mean that it's not there If I can't see it at all? Though the morning light will burn away All the thought the night creates There'll still be a trace of our love left behind In the dew upon the vine Where we go or to hide Your only words were all lies Confided in your own mind Caught in the cold lie Thought you were better, man I thought you were better, man A slipped step on the tightrope Freaked out by a false hope That things could be all right No, they're not all right I don't pay any mind To the dew upon the vine Does that mean that it's not there If I can't see it at all Though the morning light will burn away All the thought the night creates There'll still be a trace of our love left behind In the dew upon the vine I can't tame my heart It's like lightning trying to put out a spark I can't tame my heart You're like lightning trying to put out a spark I never paid any mind To the dew upon the vine Does that mean that it's not there If I can't see it at all? Though the morning light will burn away All the thought the night creates There'll still be a trace of our love left behind Will the driving rain wash away all the frightened parts I could not take There'll still be a trace of our love left behind In the dew upon the vine

Believer" First things first I'mma say all the words inside my head I'm fired up and tired of the way that things have been, oh ooh The way that things have been, oh ooh Second things second Don't you tell me what you think that I could be I'm the one at the sail, I'm the master of my sea, oh ooh The master of my sea, oh ooh I was broken from a young age Taking my sulking to the masses Writing my poems for the few That look at me, took to me, shook to me, feeling me Singing from heartache from the pain Taking my message from the veins Speaking my lesson from the brain Seeing the beauty through the... Pain! You made me a, you made me a believer, believer Pain! You break me down, you build me up, believer, believer Pain! Oh let the bullets fly, oh let them rain My life, my love, my drive, it came from... Pain! You made me a, you made me a believer, believer Third things third Send a prayer to the ones up above All the hate that you've heard has Turned your spirit to a dove, oh ooh Your spirit up above, oh ooh I was choking in the crowd Building my rain up in the cloud Falling like ashes to the ground Hoping my feelings, they would drown But they never did, ever lived, ebbing and flowing Inhibited, limited Till it broke open and rained down And rained down, like... Pain! You made me a, you made me a believer, believer Pain! You break me down, you build me up, believer, believer Pain! Oh let the bullets fly, oh let them rain My life, my love, my drive, it came from... Pain! You made me a, you made me a believer, believer Last things last By the grace of the fire and the flames You're the face of the future, the blood in my veins, oh ooh The blood in my veins, oh ooh But they never did, ever lived, ebbing and flowing Inhibited, limited Till it broke open and rained down And rained down, like... Pain! You made me a, you made me a believer, believer Pain! You break me down, you build me up, believer, believer Pain! Oh let the bullets fly, oh let them rain My life, my love, my drive, it came from... Pain! You made me a, you made me a believer, believer

Do you have reservations You know I do too I just can't be sure anymore of counting on you Do you have reservations Well you're not alone I can tell that you do It's sad but it's true Something is wrong And I don't know what I'm gonna do When you finally come home Do you have reservations Have they been there a while Do they swim in your head When you're lying in bed And you quietly smile Do you have reservations When you hand me the keys Do you wish they would go And leave us alone To do as we please Do they take on a life of their own Like some kind of disease Do you have reservations Concerning our love Do they whisper beware When I touch your hair and kiss you goodnight Do you have reservations Do they eat at your heart Do they poison your wine Do they cloud up your mind Do they tear you apart well I don't know what I'm gonna do The next time that they start Well I don't know what I'm gonna do The next time that they start No I don't know what I'm gonna do the next time that they start

I got my papers in order Gonna find me a new love Gonna find me a new love, now I got my papers in order Gonna find me a new love Gonna find me a new love, now I cried all I could afford But now my crying time's ending That's the message I'm sending out I got my papers in order Gonna find me a new love Gonna find me a new love, now Everybody's got their own excuses I know I've had mine too But I'm not gonna let a few bumps and bruises Keep me from breaking through I got my papers in order Gonna find me a new love Gonna find me a new love, now I got my papers in order Gonna find me a new love Gonna find me a new love, now I got no new to report But I can feel something's growing I can feel something's going down I got my papers in order Gonna find me a new love Gonna find me a new love, now Everybody's got their own excuses I know I've had mine too But I'm not gonna let a few bumps and bruises Keep me from breaking through I got my papers in order Gonna find me a new love Gonna find me a new love, now I got my papers in order Gonna find me a new love Gonna find me a new love, now I got my papers in order Gonna find me a new love Gonna find me a new love now I cried all I could afford But now my crying time's ending That's the message I'm sending out I got my papers in order Gonna find me a new love Gonna find me a new love now I'm gonna find me a new love now I'm gonna find me a new love Find something true, love Find me a new love I got my papers in order Gonna find me a new love Gonna find me a new love, now