Southern State

Well, the songs you sung spiraled

And hung round like echoes

Or ripples on a pond

So you circled the globe

Spent a year on the road

Without ever going home

More than a couple of days

Then you leave right away

Run to a girl you barely know

But you like how she sings

And you can't help but think

That there's something that she knows

And could teach you

Well you're sleeping in that southern state

Where the bars are filled

With people you can't hate

But try as you try

You still can't relate to them

You drink that whiskey down

As they ask you

"Are you who you say you are?"

The fact that we can't tell

Makes us like you even more

So now you're trying again

Or just visiting friends

One had just had his heart broke

For the first time in his life

He realized there are times

When you can't make it alone

So now you are giving advice

As if you had the right

To use a word like love

It's a negotiable term

What gets said's not what is heard

So it's different then for everyone

But you've been hanging

Around that college town

With your new life

Your new lover you found

And you are keeping her up at night

Bringing her down

She'll watch you drink yourself to death

But won't ask you

Is this really what you want?

Or are you just sticking with it now

Cause it's all you got?