It was another day
A perfect Texas afternoon
A mother and two children
Play the way they always do
As they raced home from the mailbox
A mother and her son
Against a little girl of 6 years old
The independent one

The deputies went door to door
Through all the neighborhood
They said I got some news to tell you folks
Im afraid it aint so good
Somehow something happened
Someone got away

Hey Babe, its me i'm parked outside your house
I know that hes asleep, so listen to me now
Darlin Im tired of living just in your dreams
Im getting out
You know we both sold our souls
Were just growing old, in this sleepy, dead-end town

Destination Anywhere
Name the place and Ill be there
Pack a bag and were out of here lets run

Baby, we both been running uphill for too long

I've been staring at the page
For what seems like days
I guess I put this one off for a while
Did I see a tear fall from your eyes
Or did you laugh so hard that you cried
When I served my secrets on a silver tray to you
Hey now, I guess the night's just bringing me down

There's no love, there's no hate
I left them there for you to take
But, know that every word was a piece of my heart

You know your favorite pair of shoes
The ones with the hole in the toe you wont lose
Your favorite record thats all scratched and used
But still you love to play when your feeling blue

That faded rose, thats all dried out
Those Bukowsky poems we couldnt live without
Your high school picture, when you had wild hair
That stormy day on the beach that got us here

Sitting here just watching you sleep
Wish I could slip inside and be
In some Technicolor dream
But the air's too thick for one of us to breathe
I'm not fool enough to think
You couldn't live life without me

I didn't come this far to throw the towel in
I didn't fight this hard to walk away
If I ain't smart enough to say I'm sorry
It's just because the words got in the way

I was walking on a wire
Looking down, there was no net
Now, I'm standing at your door
Me and my last cigarette

Yeah we've been through this before
Too late to cover up my tracks
Damn the fool who begs for more
I'll take my past and paint it black

Now this circus has left town
This clown has got to get his feet back on the ground

I'm learning how to fall
Learning how to take a hit

I got my call light on
Gimme one more fare tonight
Just get me over the bridge
I can see those shiny bay lights
You know I'm never alone
But I'm feeling lonely tonight
Damn, I got my last cigarette
But I ain't got not light

God let these wheels roll
To where the girls are pretty
When the nights explode
And life is still living
Down this open road
The arms of pity

Kids 'round here look just like sticks
trade old licks with a beat up six
I just smile and catch the groove
Got the girls all dressed in black
serious as heart attacks
Takes a little bit of getting used to
The old man with the whiskey stains
lost the night and forgot his name
His poor wife was sleeping alone again
It ain't hard to understand
why she's holdin' on to her own hand

My friend had a girlfriend
She liked her drink
Sucked the head off her lager
Threw me a wink
And she said to me "Buddy, what's your sign?"

I was off I was runnin'
Knocked me clean off my feet
Her tongue kept on selling
What any blind man could see
I just kept on stumbling through the stop signs

She said "What you hiding underneath that shirt?"
Right behind the buttons there's a heart that hurts

She said baby our loves just like your songs
The beat aint bad but the words are all wrong
Its time to pack my bags, its time to just move on
She sang Johnny Im gone, gone, gone
And she was gone

Me and Leigh met summer of 95
In a burgundy dress lookin finer than a French wine
A Cajun queen with another side
She was a schoolboys dream, I was out of my mind
She was lookin fine

You think you know me just because you know my name
You think you see me cause youve seen every line of my face
You want to want me just because I say that I want you
But does it matter if anything Im saying is the truth
You need somebody, somebody to hold on to
But this aint the movies and we aint the heroes

Staring at your window with a suitcase in my hand

If you're ugly, I'm ugly too
In your eyes the sky's a different blue
If you could see yourself like others do
You'd wish you were as beautiful as you, Yeah

And I wish I was a camera sometimes
So I could take your picture with my mind
I'd put it in a frame for you to see
How beautiful you really are to me

Ugly, Ugly, all of us
Just feel like that somedays
Ain't no rainbow in the sky