She was just seventeen, pious and pretty with a deadly disease And the weight of the world on a prosthetic shoulder And by the summer of '96 her body
So the air is getting colder and the news keeps us scared I still wrestle this summer from the bones of our tired and blistered hands 'Cause tonight
- I was a fountain You could never drink enough Then came all the boys who swept you up Played careless with your heart And every night there was a new
Well I lost my taste for the company of airports and cars We flew through the year and avoided the dust and the rocks We stood in the way of a tank '
I, I am feeling like a veteran Uncompensated for the blood I've left to pool on foreign grounds And I sometimes reach to rub at aching legs But they
Losing all my friends losing them to drinking and to driving Losing all my friends and I want them back Slipping out the back, Did you really think
We take it easy Tigers in a cage Pacing on our pads and waiting For the town to come in revelry Our lazy bones ache for a tearing Can't hold on
please say you'll come along tonight please sing the words we love don't say that you forgot them don't keep the hand we've come to hold I know you
I can barely move I can barely see where we're going now The road is washed out from the river that flooded just north of town We stick stick stick
I can never lose it I can never lose it I can never lose it ...
I can never love you [x2] I can never love you, I can never reach you [x8]
