She woke up and took me by the hand And that's alright with me Moonlight dancing off her hair She's gonna love me in my Chevy van Cause like a picture she was laying there I gave a girl a ride in my wagon And she crawled in and took control She was tired

No No turning back I'm banished from Sanctuary The darkness in me is filling me with pain There's no way to turn back for eternity In deserts I was preaching The hand of God was with me Baptized with water and I praised The one who came behind me To save

I've already been there, done that And I'm done with you messing with my mind The last time was the last time, baby I can only change who I am so much, And all I can give is all my love And my love ain't never been enough I ain't, I ain't coming back So

Maybe I had said something that was wrong Can I make it better with the lights turned on I find shelter in this way Under cover, hide away Can you hear when I say I have never felt this way Could I be, was I there It felt so crystal in the air I still

And this is how it all began On our first campaign to the Fatherland There was writing on the walls Looked like "Circus" there for me We were smoking Karl Marx With the junkies in the park I watched the barmaid keeping track By marking X's on our mats

All I wanted was a car But all I wanted was a car My buddy Blake was all-state with dreams of the NFL Jenny McClain had big brains She got a scholarship to Yale And there was Hershel who did two commercials And he was going to be a movie star Part time

Riding on the Metro You were passed as shallow word It isn't passed there's still a hurt I'm alone, sitting with my broken glass My four walls follow me through my past I was on a Paris train I emerged in London rain And you waiting there swimming

I can't forgive, I can't forget This dream was ours, but you ripped it to shreds! There's no escape, I can't reflect The distance kills me, but your presence's a threat! I will stay with you and cut right through Through the essence of all that once was

When you last left me my blood was in a jar And you kept it on your mantelpiece I couldn’t count on anyone to stand there behind me And keep the dogs from dragging me off with them While I slept you crept in and pulled the rug right out from under me

For every crack, scratch and scar on this guitar She's the place I go When there's nowhere left to run to She's the one I hold When there's no one to hold on to She's been with me late at night When I was drowning in the dark She heard my every word When