Traincar

Summer heat through the porch screen
 Like time through my lungs
 I am overcome with your memory
 There's a stain on my hands of gasoline and sand
 And the night comes again without asking
 Like a traincar running off the tracks
 You can run behind, but you cannot get it back
 And the change comes like the splitting of wood
 Like the plow blade turns the soil on the ground
 Change comes like it should
 You gotta die before you live
 Something's gotta give for you to find what comes after
 Spare change in my pocket falling from my jeans
 You are fading from my dreams with each sunrise
 Hot water screaming over the silence in my house
 Will someone get me out of this meltdown?
 Like a traincar running off the tracks
 You can run behind, but you cannot get it back
 And the change comes like the splitting of the wood
 Like the plow blade turns the soil on the ground
 Change comes like it should
 You gotta die before you live
 Something's gotta give for me to find
 Write the words, memorize the frame
 It's so bittersweet to leave you again
 I left Houston on a Sunday and I just can't explain
 Feels like a drug in my veins
 All this changing, all this changing
 And the change comes like the splitting of the wood
 Like the plow blade turns the soil on the ground
 Change comes like it should
 You gotta die before you live
 Something's gotta give for me to find what comes after
 Like a traincar running off the tracks
 You can run behind, but you cannot get it back
 Traincar running off the tracks
 Like a train car running off the tracks