The Wanting

Don't sell the farm yet, believe in me
 Don't break the branches off the family tree
 I'm made of good wood, bend but don't break
 There's only some much middle sons can take
 My mechanics of coping
 Alcohol, melatonin
 Ain't enough to get you out of my life
 You can grab, you can hold it
 But you're gonna let go when
 Everything about it just ain't right
 So we're just
 Dead fields sown in pain
 I'm the last of your name
 I can't do it all but I wouldn't do it all the same
 Hard hearts, soft on the past
 Well the hurt came quick, bitterness came to last
 You're the one thing that I want
 And the wanting's all I'll have
 There are some deeds that can't be undid
 There are some moral slopes that can't be unslid
 Did you do right by us? Best it could be
 You've done no harm but you've been no good to me
 You only think you're at home when
 You're out and making atonement
 Someday you got to make up your own mind
 You're never gonna get free of
 The way you left me to need love
 I returned the pain you paid us in kind
 So we're just
 Dead fields sown in pain
 I'm the last of your name
 I can't do it all but I wouldn't do it all the same
 Hard hearts, soft on the past
 Well the hurt came quick, bitterness came to last
 You're the one thing that I want
 And the wanting's all I'll have
 Upon the mount there was a sermon
 And then there was a lesson learned
 If I can only touch in third person
 Is this cause to be concerned
 I want to know if the passing's complete
 And if it was a clean divide
 Is this your body
 Is this where you'll sleep
 I want to love you
 I want to tell you but I can't change my mind
 So we're just dead fields sown in pain
 I'm the last of your name
 I can't do it all but I wouldn't do it all the same
 Hard hearts, soft on the past
 Well the hurt came quick, bitterness came to last
 I can't forgive and forget
 You took the one thing that I had
 Now you're the one thing that I want
 And the wanting's all I'll have