It's not the road we used to know They tore some buildings down The traffic's like a pack of dogs There's fewer trees, windows, fleas Concrete on the lawn There's people here but you are gone And I find still swimming through time Afraid some days I've reached the shore Make yourself free Man said back to me Now my heart is like an open door And the road finally gave me back But I dont think I'll unpack Because I'm not sure if I live here any more It's not my weight That makes me faint Or the sugar in my blood The way these strangers stand so close They say my name Like a guessing game "Is that really you?" No, I dont think it ever was In the spring When the world's turning green I only think about the fall The frets on the board My progression of chords Oh, how I want this to resolve And the road finally gave me back But I dont think I'll unpack Because I'm not sure if I live here any more Now the road finally gave me back But I dont think I'll unpack Because I'm not sure if I live here No, I'm not sure if I live here No, I'm not sure if I live here Anymore

Last Saturday I stood in your entry way A place where we used to wait For cars to carry us away Like once in this storm They drove me and Justin home The music was just being born It was all I was longing for Now I'm on a plane Of singing my songs again Oh, please don't think ill of it It's the reason I exist But you You're the crutch of a cripple You're the calm of a conscience You're the peace that I have found When all these voices talk too loud Well, you are quietly reassuring me With the hands of a healer And the tongue of a teacher It's your voice that I have known To be the first one on the phone Yeah, you ran all the lights to the hospital So don't you say to me That life's a trap The future is nothing but a tragedy Because I'll be out of that window Yeah, I'll start wishing to die again Just say we're not walking backwards, kid And show me to the door And I'll walk behind Out into the hot sunlight Where the world's very much alive Even when I close my eyes Well, should I admit That my promise is counterfeit That I'm careless and childish And that's all I can hope to be And would you concede That I think only of myself I refuse everybody's help Who has been reaching out for me? Well, you reach with the soul of a sailor And the swing of a miner You have cleared the rock away Leaving gold there in its place And it is more than anyone could claim Oh, with the sense of a banker And with the touch of a tailor You saved this life for me And you have sown it to beauty And I am grateful now and I will always be So would you sing with me The song is all I know Some truths are told now only in a melody So I've been writing a new one Yeah, I've been taking my time with it It's gonna be so perfect It's gonna hold all of us inside of it You will see If you just add your harmony I think it would be complete And be worthy of singing My clumsy symphony Yeah, you're the cool of the water You're the start of the summer Keep me still like a anchor In a storm you're the cellar When I'm heavy with worry make me light as a feather When I'm deafened by anger you're the song I remember With the grace of a dancer and the strength of a pillar When I'm starving to suffer you just fill me with laughter You're a poet And a saint You are the only one I choose to imitate Oh, like the love of a father through the eye of a camera It's this picture I have seen We're on a sloping hill of green And you are walking there beside me

If you walk away, I'll walk away First tell me which road you will take I don't want to risk our paths crossing someday So you walk that way, I'll walk this way And the future hangs over heads And it moves with each current event Until it falls all around like a cold, steady rain Just stay in when it's looking this way And the moon's laying low in the sky Forcing everything metal to shine And the sidewalk holds diamonds like a jewelry store case They argue, walk this way, no, walk this way And Laura's asleep in my bed As I'm leaving, she wakes up and says "I dreamed you were carried away on the crest of a wave Baby, don't go away, come here" And there's kids playing guns in the street And one's pointing his tree branch at me And so I put my hands up, I say, "Enough is enough If you walk away, I'll walk away" And he shot me dead I found a liquid cure from my landlocked blues It would pass the way like a slow parade It's leaving, but I don't know how soon And the world's got me dizzy again You think after twenty-two years I'd be used to the spin And it only feels worse when I stay in one place So I'm always pacing around or walking away I keep drinking the ink from my pen And I'm balancing history books up on my head But it all boils down to one quotable phrase "If you love something, give it away" A good woman will pick you apart A box full of suggestions for your possible heart But you may be offended, and you may be afraid But don't walk away, don't walk away We made love on the living room floor With the noise in the background from a televised war And in that deafening pleasure, I thought I heard someone say "If we walk away, they walk away" But greed is a bottomless pit And our freedom's a joke, we're just taking a piss And the whole world must watch the sad comic display If you're still free, start running away Because we're coming for you! I've grown tired of holding this pose I feel more like a stranger each time I come home So I'm making a deal with the devils of fame Saying, "Let me walk away, please" You'll be free, child, once you have died From the shackles of language and measurable time And then we can trade places, play musical graves Until then walk away, walk away, walk away So I'm up at dawn Putting on my shoes I just want to make a clean escape I'm leaving, but I dont know where to I know I'm leaving, but I dont know where to