Driving North

I've got skin like birch bark
 You can peel me off and lose me to the wind
 I guess it's too late to protect myself from this
 It feels like I've been driving north
 It's getting colder by the mile
 And at this rate I'll be buried in snow in no time at all
 But you've been building these walls for a long time
 It's not that I didn't know but you'd flash me another smile
 As you'd lay another stone
 And I still fall for that
 I still fall for that one every time
 This is all that's left
 Just these sad sad songs
 If you're going to go your way
 I guess I'll carry myself along
 Could you build me a guardrail
 To keep me from falling off of the ledge?
 Or throw me a rope and pull me out of this?
 Could you sew me a flag to remind me
 Where I stand without you it's easy to forget
 And this is all that's left
 Just these sad sad songs
 If you're going to go your way
 I guess I'll carry myself along
 Well I've been taking long drives with the music too loud
 I've been dragging my feet over this February ground
 And I've been talking to strangers at the local bars
 And I wish they were you
 You know it just brings me down
 Tell me a joke or two I could use one now
 Because I've got skin like birch bark
 You can peel me off and lose me to the wind
 I guess it's too late to protect myself from this
 And this is all that's left
 Just these sad sad songs
 If you're going to go your way
 I guess I'll carry myself along