Smooth stones have fallen more out a sky night like rain I'm outside on the front lawn, getting beaten black and blue Lookin' now I always preferred child my enemies to my friends It just seemed logical, like something constant, upon which you can depend If my father was an earthquake, now then my mother was a Me kinda got my hands full, just walkin' in a straight line, remembering my own name
(Chorus) I was in the trees around my home Bled fire out the eyes of the sky The world snapped, your feet and every thing that was alive that died I was born to a wind, take the color right out of your eyes I just keep what I can carry now, and leave the rest
I heard stories of those city lights as I out among them trees Bows like a spider web, and no light in for the eye to see flies in the summer skies with the downward pressure of the heat I sneak down that gravel at night till your black eye's hotter the Tennessee concrete
(Chorus) I was born in the around my home Bled fire out into the of the sky The world snapped, beneath your feet and every thing that was alive died I was born to a wind, take the word out of your mouth and color right out of your eyes I just what I can carry now, and leave the rest behind I just keep what I can carry now, and leave the behind
Clear to go a heavy load, watch the human car castle fall apart Ill tell you right now it's more about the out here than it is about the heart See a man now in a dark caf with everybody's back turned Sometimes we've just gotta put our hands into the fire, make sure it still burns Red light in that downtown pulls out and puddles on his feet I know some of you out there are starving, but it ain't for lack of something to eat
(Chorus) I was in the trees around my home Bled out into the eyes of the sky The world snapped, beneath feet and every thing that was alive that died I was born to a cold wind, the color right out of your eyes Just keep what you can carry now, and leave the rest Just keep what you can now, and leave the rest behind