Nowhere To Start

I'm almost off to bed

And the grass is shimmering dew.

Looking for a tune to fill my head

Thinking silly thoughts about you

And it's good to be alive

When I've got you on my mind.

The streetlights up ahead

As I walk down this cement

Illuminate some little things you said

And a couple things you meant

In a passing stranger's eye,

In every car I am walking by.

The daybreak is still miles away

From taking the place of what is overhead,

But it moves just like something almost being said.

When I think of you, the road I'm on

Is like some house I built all alone

And filled it up with the things I loved

That now I can't get out of.

You see this house I built?

Two hands and the world around?

Look out. Look out.

I'm going to burn it to the ground.

Don't want to keep in mind

Any places that I have been

There’s nowhere nowhere

There’s nowhere to start but start again.

It was not quite summer yet

When I walked out on some pier

With a new girl that I'd met

And a stomach full of beer

And told how it was going to be

If not for her at least for me.

We were always planting seeds

We didn't know it but we were

With every little thing we did

With every little him and her

And they grew without a sound

Into the dark woods all around.

Well I stood there tonight in the window of your room

And the rooftops were rubies If I looked out right

And all the debris of the world I knew

Was laying below in a weird moonlight.

You talked to me, and you had no idea

But every word you said landed square on my chin

And I could not wait for you to pick me up, stand me up

And knock me over again.

You see this house I built?

So long before I met you?

Look out. Look out.

There's a wrecking ball coming through

I thought I'd found a little piece of my brain

I thought I had a little place to lie in

There's nowhere, nowhere

Nowhere to start but start again.