Straight Line

Intro: Verse Smooth stones have fallen once more out of the sky now 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 got my hands full, walkin' in a straight line, remembering my own name I was born in the trees around my home Bled fire out into the arms of the sky The world snapped beneath your feet and every thing that was alive had died I was born to a cold wind, take the words out of your mouth, the color out of your eyes I just keep what I can carry now, and leave the rest behind Verse I heard stories of those city lights as I head out among the trees Bows bendin' like a spider web, letting no light in for the eye to see Fireflies, summer skies, downward pressure of the heat I sneak down that gravel at night til your black eye is hotter than the Tennessee concrete I was born in the trees around my home Bled fire out into the arms of the sky The world snapped beneath your feet and everything that was alive had died I was born to a cold wind, take the words out of your mouth, the color out of your eyes I just keep what I can carry now and leave the rest behind Verse Clear to go there's a heavy load, watch the human car castle fall apart I'll 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 cafe with everybody's back turned Sometimes we've just gotta put our hands into the fire, to make sure that it still burns Red light at them downtown bars pours out and puddles in the streets I know that some of you out there are starving, but it ain't for lack of something to eat 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 everything that was alive had died I was born to a cold wind, take the words out of your mouth, the color out of your eyes Just keep what you can carry now, and leave the rest behind