Straight Line Lyrics - Straight Line - Pete Bernhard

Smooth stones have fallen once more out a sky night like rain 

I'm outside on the front lawn, getting beaten black and blue again 

Lookin' back now I always preferred child my enemies to my friends 

It always just seemed logical, like something constant, upon which you can depend 

If my father was an earthquake, now then my mother was a hurricane 

Me I've kinda got my hands full, just walkin' in a straight line, remembering my own name 

(Chorus) 

I was born in the trees around my home 

Bled fire out into the eyes of the sky 

The world snapped, beneath your feet and every thing that was alive that died 

I was born to a cold wind, take the color right out of your eyes 

I just keep what I can carry now, and leave the rest behind 

I heard stories of those city lights as I head out among them trees 

Bows bendin' like a spider web, and no light in for the eye to see 

Five flies in the summer skies with the downward pressure of the heat 

I sneak down that gravel at night till your black eye's hotter than the Tennessee concrete 

(Chorus) 

I was born in the trees around my home 

Bled fire out into the eyes of the sky 

The world snapped, beneath your feet and every thing that was alive that died 

I was born to a cold wind, take the word out of your mouth and color right out of your eyes 

I just keep what I can carry now, and leave the rest behind 

I just keep what I can carry now, and leave the rest behind 

Clear to go there's a heavy load, watch the human car castle fall apart 

Ill tell you right now it's more about the stomach out here than it is about the heart 

See a man now playing in a dark caf with everybody's back turned 

Sometimes we've just gotta put our hands into the fire, make sure that it still burns 

Red light in that downtown Bart pulls out and puddles on his feet 

I know that some of you out there are starving, but it ain't for lack of something to eat 

(Chorus) 

I was born in the trees around my home 

Bled fire out into the eyes of the sky 

The world snapped, beneath your feet and every thing that was alive that died 

I was born to a cold wind, take the color right out of your eyes 

Just keep what you can carry now, and leave the rest behind 

Just keep what you can carry now, and leave the rest behind