Hiding From Your Love

Oh I came from the sun but I landed in the snow
 Had my own reasons but nowhere to go
 I knocked on the door of that old shabby bar
 Where you stood on the stage with your
 beat-up guitar
 I waited for the band to break and we spoke
 I gave you my name and you offered me a smoke
 Well the sirens were screamin' at a full moon
 that night
 You said can I ring you and I said goodnight
 and went...
 Hiding from your love
 Oh yeah hiding from your love
 I walked through the avenues with those
 dirt-lettered names
 Each criminal so different,
 yet somehow we're the same
 They walked up to me, seeing something in my eyes
 When I took up their offer they were not surprised
 I sent myself flying above the noise and the squalor
 Couldn't wait to get home and pick up the phone
 By then I was feeling just a little bit taller
 And thinking I might like to not be alone and be...
 Well I told you about Mama then we talked about Jesus
 I told you about a trailer in the woods all alone
 Said I would meet you at the corner of Seventh
 Well you should've known that I'd never show
 and I'd be...