light a fire 

burn up all you know 

you've had 

so much time just to 

let things go 

now you're 

burning letters out 

in the snow 

in your backyard 


years go rolling 

you're thirty three 

It's time 

for the cross 

or the bodhi tree 

but you'd 

like to cry when you 

skin your knee 

man's it's hard 


and it's the same old friends on new years eve 

the same snow falls on the same old leaves 

and there's the same old joy and the same old hurt 

same old corduroy shirt 


old storm windows, 

the broke-tail squirrel 

and the 

grocery lists and the 

skateboard girls 

and your 

rusty brain cells give you a twirl 

Oh no 


kitchen radio, 

coffee's on 

oh you'd 

like a month just to lean up on 

but this 

open road wants to 

get you gone 

off you go 


and it's the same old jar of car keys by the door 

the same old scuffed up floor 

the same old thirst for more until the put you in the 

dirt 


It's the same old nights alone 

the same old "Baby when you coming home?" 

to feel the same old joy, oh the same old hurt 

same old corduroy shirt 

same old corduroy shirt