My Side Of The Road

Saw you take it on the chin outside the Phoenix Motor Inn

You could always find a way to kill the bird and keep the flame

Somehow lighter on your feet, crossing the dark end of the street

Falling harder than a star cause you can hear the broken heart

Within the world, within the world

That ain't your soul, it won't sing along

Mission bugs out every night, they throw themselves into the light

Always waking from a dream of blowing up and burning clean

Saw you cold and getting wet, sucking the ends of cigarettes

You learned how to love a scar cause you could hear the broken heart

But you won't sing that sad song

Saw you run and hide, I saw you slide across the sky

But I never saw you down on my side of the road

Saw you take it on the chin and fix it back with bobby pins

Saw you lose before the start, I saw you shining in the dark

Saw you chained, I saw you choke, saw you running out of rope

Saw you shaking off the blues, I saw you recognize the tune

But you won't sing that sad song

Frisco's too much for me to bear, I thought for sure you'd meet me there

But I never saw you down on my side of the road