The Days Have Left Me Wonderin'

I'm playing in some grave in Louisiana

Singing to the heart I left in Tennessee

They say a man is truly healed when he becomes another's

I guess, perhaps, I've clung to my disease

For when a girl in Carolina leaves me waiting in a diner

As she smokes another cigarette outside

I wonder if you'll take me back, Virginia

Or if I'm standing in the way of my own life

Oh, are there answers or is everything unknown?

Oh, I don't know anymore

What if I had a son out west in Oklahoma

With a girl I loved and shared the soul I had

Would the ever winding road leave me reminded

That I'd never be a father, but just a dad?

It's always one more hill before we reach the canyon

Then one more climb until I stop to build my home

Still you whisper that I'm holding on to nothing

But I've never held to something quite as hard as letting go

If I e'er pass understanding, I swear I'll hold on fast

Until my hands grow white and weary and my teeth, from gritting, crack

And I'll pray to God with my last breath that my last breath will last

For one more run into the deep unknown…