She said she knew the way, I was just 16. She flipped me her car keys, then taught me everything. Sneaking into bars, palming cards and poker bluffs. How to outrun the law while picking her handcuffs.
Alone and lost without any plan. Wandering loose over bad bad land. Everywhere I walk it's all rock and dust. Every town I pass is rubble and rust. . I got no good place to go.
What seems fine, so nice, ain't right. It all appears to work but not quite. Things look strong and new, when they're not. Underneath and behind it's full of rot.
Something, something's gotten in my head. Got me thinking something's under my bed. Giving me goose bumps, making me shake. Scaring me crazy, no way to escape.
I play Russian Roulette and life is my bullet. Sometimes it's a hand grenade. Even with all my amputations. I'm still digging my own grave. And I shovel fast, I'm in neck deep.
I'll have this and I'll take that. I gotta have what they have. You better watch, watch your back. I wanna fly, I need wings. I want stuff, diamonds and rings.
I feel my heart beat on a Saturday night. Watching pretty girls under flashing lights. Is there one for me, is there one for me. I see them leave the clubs with these awful guys.
My eyes went up, it was sunrise. The sky turned black. It was noon. . A ship of the silveriest metal. Shadowed out. All of the moon. . A shape that was golden.
I'm walking down a street. I don't know nobody's name (they don't know me). I got no friends here. I don't see anyone I wanna meet. . It's a lonely town and it's a lonely day.
Light up your face with all the love within you. Say your word, make it heard. Light up the wind with all the kings inside you. Shout it out, have no doubts, for the time of love is now.
I got friends with serious problems. I got friends on the edge and wobblin'. I'd like to help, but I got my own stuff right now. . I got friends who drink too much.
The toad road licked my wheels like a sabre. Winds of the marsh lightly blew. Stone jars stacked with stars on her shoulders. Hunters of pity she slew.
She knows my weaknesses, I let her get too close. She knows where to cut so I bleed the most. She could use a gun but that would be too quick. She could use a knife but that would be to clean.
You're hotter than our bonfire. I'm ready to be burned. Your kisses are my kerosene. You're dousing me with flirt. I'm going berserk. . Strike that match.
That place ain't home no more. After what went down and they slammed the door. They wrote my name top of their black list. In big print, permanent ink, it can't be missed.
I'm staring straight ahead, I tore off the rear view. Motorcycle growls, brake never gets used. Pipe's spittin' flame, pavement burning tire. Night and day, riding fire.
I don't get motivated till the straits are dire. I don't get out of my seat until the heat breathes fire. I get complacent. I feel a little bit tired.
I thought she was simple, I thought she was free. From the conventions that this world heeds. I thought she had her own mind up inside that head. I thought we'd live our own lives but we're living theirs instead.
It's a bad horizon that I'm staring at. There's a long dark road leading back. Regret is pushing me as the sun is shutting down. Redemption can't be found here in this tired old ghost town.
It's been a long week and I'm losing my mind. 'Cause I don't want to come home again. Is it the birds or the waves or the words I'm talking of now?. 'Cause I don't want to come home again.