Straw Man

Quiet lonely day
 On a miracle's highway and traveling takes its toll
 The highway's windy road
 Didn't open up her soul the way I thought it would
 And I don't think that's good
 Guess I thought it would have been the best she'd seen
 The straw man's off the clock
 She's waiting for his knock in her underwear
 His foot falls on the stair
 She greets him with a glare that says he'll have to fall
 But with her back up against the wall
 She suddenly recalls the straw man's just her dream
 And it's never quite so clean
 She makes the world around me seem
 Lavender and wintergreen
 When we're side by side
 Now the straw man's been let loose
 My dreams have been reduced by a quest for fame
 Still the straw man feels no pain
 She realized in shame and then the game is back
 Then blue fades into black
 Time takes back the slack she had when just seventeen
 And it's never quite so clean
 I make the world around her seem
 Lavender and wintergreen
 When we're side by side
 Still a quiet lonely day
 On a miracle's highway and I am almost home
 Pick up the phone
 Say that living life alone ain't how the story ends
 Cause I am here to mend
 But how much can she bend till on my side she'll lean
 And it's never quite so clean
 She makes the world around me seem
 Lavender and wintergreen
 When we're side by side