I've never found a way to say I love you
but if the chance came by, I, oh I would
but way back where I come from
we never mean to bother
we don't like to make our passions other peoples' concern
and we walk in world of safe people
and at night we walk into our houses and burn

how I long to fall just a little bit
to dance out of the lights and stray from the light
but I fear that to fall in love with you
is to fall from a great and gruesome height
so you know I asked a friend about it
on a bad day-her husband had just left her
she sat down on the chair he'd left behind
she said, 'what is love? where did it get me?
whoever thought of love is no friend of mine.'

once I had everything I gave it up
for the shoulder of a driveway
and the words I've never felt
and so for you I came this far across the tracks
ten miles above the limit and with no seatbelt
and I'd do it again
for tonight I went running
through the screendoors of discretion
for I woke up from a nightmare that I could not stand to see
you were wandering out on the hills of Iowa
and you were not thinking of me