straightline

Smooth stones have fallen once more out of the sky now like rain
 I'm outside on the front lawn, getting beaten black and blue again
 Lookin' back now I always preferred child my enemies to my friends
 It always just seemed logical
 To have something constant, upon which you can depend
 If my father was an earthquake, now then my mother was a hurricane
 Me, I've got my hands full
 Walkin' in a straight line, remembering my own name
 I was born when the trees around my home
 Bled fire out into the arms of the sky
 The world snapped beneath your feet, and every thing that was alive, it died
 I was born to a cold wind, take the words outta your mouth, the color outta your eyes
 I just keep what I can carry now, and leave the rest behind
 I heard stories of the city lights
 I head out among the trees
 Bows bendin' like a spider web, lettin' no light in for the eye to see
 Fire flies, summer skies, downward pressure of the heat
 I sneak down that gravel at night till your black eye's, hotter than the Tennessee concrete
 But I was born when the trees around my home
 Bled fire out into the arms of the sky
 The world snapped beneath your feet Everything that was alive, it died
 I was born to a cold wind, take the words outta your mouth, the color outta your eyes
 I just keep what I can carry now, and leave the rest behind
 Cleared to go, there's a heavy load
 Watch the human card castle fall apart
 Ill tell you right now it's more about the stomach out here, than it is about the heart
 See a man playing in the dark café with everybody's back turned
 Sometimes we've just gotta put our hands into the fire, to make sure that it still burns
 Red light of them downtown bars pours out and puddles into the streets
 I know there's some of you out there starvin'
 But it ain't for lack of something to eat
 I was born when the trees around my home
 Bled fire out into the arms of the sky
 The world snapped beneath your feet Everything that was alive, it died
 I was born to a cold wind, take the words outta your mouth, the color outta your eyes
 I just keep what I can carry now, and leave the rest behind