All New (Heart Shut Tight)

I dreamed this dream

That's not how I ought to start a song, but tag along

Sometimes the tried clichés are true

And there were you, all mysterious and smooth

Wrapped in riddles, worth a little scar or two

So I opened up

Might not be new for most of you, but listen up

Some of us are more repressed than others

And we try, experiment from time to time

I thought I'd dream of being dreamed of

Thought I'd pine -- for a time

But I woke up in New Mexico, running with my palms wide open

And my heart shut tight, my heart shut tight

I woke up over Joshua Tree, stars all poking fun of me

And my heart shut tight, my heart shut tight -- my heart she tried

I wanna make my home in these poor bones

And shake the New York lonely off of me

Never you mind

You are the ditch I tumbled into running blind

Dropped my caution, stopped my watching, and for what?

I slept right through the truth of us

So don't you fret, you bear no fault, I just slipped up -- just tripped up

And it's hell to pay

I'm bound for Concord and I'm conquered, I'm betrayed

I'll point my bleeding nose back north where I belong

Rocky Mountains, point me home

I really hate my coming late by what you knew all along --

It's in every damn love song --

Your rocks are colder

Your coast is older

But the names are all all new all new all new

And I woke up under turning trees, Jersey raining leaves on me

And my heart shut tight against the Orleans night

I woke up on Montana roads, bleeding hard and dogged by hope

And my heart shut tight, my heart shut tight

Oh, my heart she tried so hard to do like humans do

To fall a little fall, to dream a dream or two

I'll fly back across the plains again and perch a humbled spell

And come back for the Maritimes when I have learned my lessons well

You guard your own -- you stay awake

The house makes the rules -- the house wins the game.

I woke up in New Mexico, running with my palms wide open

And my heart shut tight, my heart shut tight

I woke up under Joshua Tree, 29 Palms mocking me

And my heart shut tight, my heart shut tight

I woke up in New Mexico, I knew exactly how we'd go

And my heart shut tight, my heart shut tight

I woke up over Joshua Tree, stars all poking fun of me

And my heart shut tight, my heart shut tight, my heart she tried

I wanna make my home in these poor bones

And shake the New York lonely off of me