Defibrillation

You draw the line
 You draw it again and
 I bum the light to my closest friends
 Straight as an arrow?
 Well, that depends
 You hit the road and the road bends
 I have no quarrels, no enemies
 I know my failures, my expertise
 The righteous gambling of '82
 You came to me, but I was born to you
 Where would you wander?
 What would it mean?
 There might be saviors, but no guarantees
 When we needed something kind of like love
 We fell together, I guess just because
 Oh, my friend sorrow, you are relieved
 I no longer need your company
 And what's stuck in my throat is a mystery
 And what it is
 Is a heartbreaking, soul-shaking, overwhelming undertaking
 That hit me once again
 I knew your mother
 She was my friend
 It's only love to her that I do extend
 When I fell under, sometimes nightly
 She was the branch to which I held on tightly
 I've tried my stable of remedies
 I know it's hard to see the light when you're on your knees
 I headed back
 Borrowed a car
 North Colorado via Arkansas
 Island to island
 Breaking my silence
 I'm holding on you
 Dwell in the violence
 Behind my eyelids
 I close then open
 Something inside you is bending like I do
 It's like I've heard this song
 If down the road and
 If you're to find there
 Or some box of clues that I've left behind
 I just thought that I'd save you some time
 Straighten it out here and make it rhyme
 It's not my nature to pretend
 That any one road leads to any one end
 And maybe victory's too heavy for arms like these
 And freedom's too loaded with the speak of destinies
 I just try to see the thing for what it is
 And what it is
 Is a heartbreaking, soul-shaking, overwhelming exhalation
 That hit me once again
 Hit me once again