Well I guess that I was lonely
That's why I called you on the phone
Cause in a moment of forgiveness
I didn't want to be alone

And I guess that I was willing
More than I ever was before
Cause in a moment of forgiveness
I come a knockin at your door

Baby I woke up crying last night
Just to realize that you were gone
Has it been two long years without you
Tell me now

We talked up all night
And still came to no conclusion
We started a fight
That ended in silent confusion

And as we sat stuck
You could hear the trash truck
Making its way through the neighborhood

Picking up the thrown out
Different from house to house
We get to decide what we think is no good

We're sculpted from youth
The chipping away makes me weary
And as for the truth

I heard you sing a rebel song
Sung it loud and all alone
We can't afford the things you say
We can't afford the warranty

Well I see you walking in the glare
Down the county road we share
Our southern blood my heresy
Damn that old confederacy

It took a long time to become the thing
I am to you
And you won't tear it apart
Without a fight
Without a heart

Yes it's true
I've gotten very moody over you

Don't think I don't sense your caution
Way across the room

Or across the phone lines
Big black ocean
Conversation brief

We can't find a clear connection
And I can't get relief

Why don't we both agree
We're both afraid
And too afraid to say

If I said
Count to three
(Count to three)
Move toward me
(Move toward me)

I was downstairs
In the green room
Waiting for you to appear
I said hello to your family
I said hello
to your friends I said hello
To the situation never yields

Now it's easy for me to tell you
That my love for you is sincere
But I once stumbled on these feelings (on these feelings)
And I once stumbled on these words (on these words)
Something you don't ever stumble on dear

I could paint you in the dark
Cause I've studied you with hunger as a work of art
And these are very secret days
I collect my information
Then I stow it all away
Call me
When you breeze through to your appointments
The work you do
Call me
I'm collecting you

The pleading (unknown) sting
My hairtrigger love and faulty spring
The (unknown) name
I don't like that smile applied to me

Let's not drag this out
Everything's in motion
Though I've only ever loved you kind
And with devotion
Remember when I met you
You were leaving from the start
I thought one day you'd probably just come home
And break my heart

It's funny what you know
And still go on pretending
With no good evidence
You'll ever see that happy ending

You
Looking for your distance
And sensing my resistance

Tonight I'll be sleepin on a mountain top
I got a billion stars for my witness
In the morning I go down and the sun comes up
And I take a drink from the bitterroot river

Have you been lonely
Yes I've been lonely
I've been lonely too

Have you been lonely
Yes I've been lonely
I've been lonely too

Tonight I'll be sleepin on a mountain top
I got a billion stars for my witness

Now we can say
That nothings lost
And only change
Brings round the prophecy
Well now it's melting
The solid frost
Was once a veil on greener landscapes
We would see
Beneath my surface
The waters heating
The steam comes up and out the tears
You see me shine
For every strange and bitter moment
There was never a better time

For every pleasure
Exacts its pain
How you hurt me
How you were good to me

If you were here in starkville
Towny boys would love the way you stare
If you were here in starkville
Well the local girls they wouldn't have a prayer

Well I've spent a reckless night inside the wonder of your everlasting charm
Now I'm haunted by geography and the flora
And the fauna of your heart

At the dawning of some road worn day
I call you on a whim just to say

We were sitting round a dying fire
Somebody lit incense
Somebody lit a cigarette
And passed a bottle around
It was just strawberry season
Backbreaking pickers in the patches
Everythings burning down to ashes
And down to the ground
She's saving me
I don't even think she knows it
It's a strange way to show it as distant as
Last nights dream unravels
She's saving me
I'm a very lost soul

We blew off immigration
The moon was sittin high
We drove from la candona into comentine
And gloria was singing
And cecelia closed her eyes
And I saw them
Drifting out over the night sky

I said neuva senoritas
Are you gone to brighter days
Have you found your greener valley
And the place where your heart stays

Headed back to the flatlands
And you headed up to the hills