All New (Heart Shut Tight)

I dreamed this dream
 That's not how I ought to start a song, but tag along
 Sometimes the tried clichés are true
 And there were you, all mysterious and smooth
 Wrapped in riddles, worth a little scar or two
 So I opened up
 Might not be new for most of you, but listen up
 Some of us are more repressed than others
 And we try, experiment from time to time
 I thought I'd dream of being dreamed of
 Thought I'd pine -- for a time
 But I woke up in New Mexico, running with my palms wide open
 And my heart shut tight, my heart shut tight
 I woke up over Joshua Tree, stars all poking fun of me
 And my heart shut tight, my heart shut tight -- my heart she tried
 I wanna make my home in these poor bones
 And shake the New York lonely off of me
 Never you mind
 You are the ditch I tumbled into running blind
 Dropped my caution, stopped my watching, and for what?
 I slept right through the truth of us
 So don't you fret, you bear no fault, I just slipped up -- just tripped up
 And it's hell to pay
 I'm bound for Concord and I'm conquered, I'm betrayed
 I'll point my bleeding nose back north where I belong
 Rocky Mountains, point me home
 I really hate my coming late by what you knew all along --
 It's in every damn love song --
 Your rocks are colder
 Your coast is older
 But the names are all all new all new all new
 And I woke up under turning trees, Jersey raining leaves on me
 And my heart shut tight against the Orleans night
 I woke up on Montana roads, bleeding hard and dogged by hope
 And my heart shut tight, my heart shut tight
 Oh, my heart she tried so hard to do like humans do
 To fall a little fall, to dream a dream or two
 I'll fly back across the plains again and perch a humbled spell
 And come back for the Maritimes when I have learned my lessons well
 You guard your own -- you stay awake
 The house makes the rules -- the house wins the game.
 I woke up in New Mexico, running with my palms wide open
 And my heart shut tight, my heart shut tight
 I woke up under Joshua Tree, 29 Palms mocking me
 And my heart shut tight, my heart shut tight
 I woke up in New Mexico, I knew exactly how we'd go
 And my heart shut tight, my heart shut tight
 I woke up over Joshua Tree, stars all poking fun of me
 And my heart shut tight, my heart shut tight, my heart she tried
 I wanna make my home in these poor bones
 And shake the New York lonely off of me