Defibrillation

You draw the line

You draw it again

I follow the light to my closest friends

Straight as an arrow?

Well, that depends

You hit the road, and the road bends

I have no quarrels, no enemies

I know my failures, my expertise

The righteous gambling of '82

You came to me, but I was born to you

Where would you wander?

What would it mean?

There might be saviors, but no guarantees

When we needed something kind of like love

We fell together, I guess just because

Oh, my friend sorrow, you are relieved

I no longer need your company

And what's stuck in my throat is a mystery

And what it is

Is a heartbreaking, soul-shaking, overwhelming undertaking

That hit me once again

I knew your mother

She was my friend

It's only love to her that I do extend

When I fell under, sometimes nightly

She was the branch to which I held on tightly

I've tried my stable of remedies

I know it's hard to see the light when you're on your knees

I headed back

Borrowed a car

North Colorado via Arkansas

Island to island

Breaking my silence

I'm holding on you

Dwell in the violence

Behind my eyelids

I close then open

Something inside you is bending like I do

It's like I've heard this song

If down the line

You are to find me

Or some box of clues that I've left behind

I just thought that I'd save you some time

Straighten it out here and make it rhyme

It's not my nature to pretend

That any one road leads to any one end

And maybe victory's too heavy for arms like these

And freedom's too loaded with the speak of destinies

I just try to see the thing for what it is

And what it is

Is a heartbreaking, soul-shaking, overwhelming exhalation

That hit me once again

Hit me once again