In the fall we circle through the leaves and talk about the little ones And we smile but never say too much, the moment always vanishing One by one the
Oh girl, you think you got time You're gonna get 'round to it way down the line But one step, two step, fall behind So you better have a good plan Oh
Sun sets in an ocean of brown farmland haze Power lines draped across roads, you could drive on for days Well, it's all too perfect, time to look back
Father says head down, we don't want them finding you Mother says practice now all the words you know Oh, Arizona's burning, they say the fence turned
It's just the radio darling, just the radio Just the radio and your runaway imagination Just the radio darling, just the radio Just the radio, we could
Oh, no not now, please not now I've just settled into the glass half empty made myself at home And so why now? Oh, please not now I just stopped believing
He was there the night the wall came down. He lost her in the endless crowd, In the shadow of St. Stephen's cross. He sent cries aloft for his fellow
While you were building your empires I was still sleeping, I was still sleeping And while you were setting your woods afire I was still dreaming, I was
If this were the last snowfall No more halos on evergreens If this were my last glimpse of winter What would these eyes see? If this were the last snow
Oh, my God what have I done? Chasing some mirage in my Mojave sun Don't say every chance is lost Please don't say anything at all In sand and thorns
All of a sudden the conversation turns And everyone concerned is looking down The guilty party is right here in the room But no one can assume the high
In another life you and I worked West Virginia coal mines side by side Collecting the black dust like sin The day the main shaft caved in I caught your
