The pink dress you left behind sits in the window

Of a retail shop on Congress Avenue.

Trapped on a torso going nowhere,

Between a wedding gown and a sign: “Buy 1 – Get 2”.

No face to smile when…

The best day to write a song is when it’s raining:

No birds, no notes caught up in the sky.

They find their way into the quiet space of this old house,

So I write ‘em down – the next…

I’ve landed here and thought I’d be alone,

But others have found this place to call home.

Covering the mountain side

With a solid sheet of silent white.

A deer tracked through and there’s been a thaw,

But I’m still…

Remember all those nights we’d lay under the stars?

Talk about the planets, their orbit just like ours -

One caught up by the other, locked for eternity,

But light years away like a far off galaxy.

This is strange…

I know it’s strange for me to say:

But I’ve been thinking about dying all day.

I hope I’m the first one to go,

Cuz being without you is being too alone.

The only way we can stop this train…

The world looks different on my side of the map, there’s gravel runnin’ under your wheels.

You never think you’ll make it back to a four lane road.

On my side of town there’s honky-tonks– killin’ everything you feel

There’s…

There’s something ‘bout ‘gettin’ that rust to spin,

Draggin’ that belt ‘til the engine kicks in.

A black cloud blowin’ out the tailpipe,

Seein’ him smile saying “Damn that’s nice.”

This bucket hasn’t run since ‘73,

When my pop let…

Pack of Winstons, the ashtray’s near full.

I knock off a long ash and watch the smoke swirl.

Then I trace the flowers on the curtains again,

And realize all this is wearing too thin.

Three months on the road,…