Jackson Underground

I walked Harrison with blinders on
 So many nights over at George's bar
 Glasses of old style glow of jukebox lights
 Pictures of my past streaming back tonight
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 Lonely Wabash under curving El
 Swimming aquatic of my brainwaves slow down
 The streets are soft and dead at 2 am
 Drunk/alone again at Jackson Underground
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 Uptown sunset flooding from the West
 Noise rises to my window from the summer concrete
 I couldn't bring myself to love this girl
 At the airport I just let her go
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 I was lost in the rye.
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 The wind blows hard against my burning skin
 I'm just another misguided child of fiction
 School kids are shouting in the streets
 And I wish I was singing in their wide-eyed chorus
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 These days I swim in disillusion
 At night I dream of possibilities
 This afternoon I'm stuck in raw nostalgia
 Have I arrived at all the wrong conclusions?
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 Uptown sunset flooding from the west
 Noise rises to my window from the summer concrete
 I guess I didn't know how to love that girl
 High time for the dust to rest
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 I was lost in the rye.