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I was getting kinda tired of her endless chatter
Nothing I could say ever seemed to matter
So I took a little drive just to clear my head
I saw a flashing neon up ahead
It looked like a place to find some satisfaction
With a little less talk and a lot more action
I paid the man at the door [...]

Blue’s out side my door,
I don’t even know if it’s raining.
But I’ve been here before,
and I don’t want to be here again.
Every now and then, voices on the wind,
take me back to the first time.
Far away and clear, you can hear the teardrops,
falling for the last in love.
.
If I let you down,
all I can say [...]

There’s a story that my daddy tells religiously
Like clockwork every time he sees an opening
In a conversation about the way things used to be
Well I’d just roll my eyes and make a bee-line for the door
But I’d always wind up starry-eyed, cross-legged on the floor
Hanging on to every word
Man, the things I heard
It was harder [...]

My old man’s backhand used to land,
Hard on the side of my head.
I just learned to stay out of his way.
There’s been streetfights, blue lights,
Long nights with the world sittin’ on my chest:
It just showed me how much I could take.
Hard times, bad luck.
Sometimes, life sucks.
That’s all right, I’m ok.
It ain’t nothin’ but another day.
But [...]

This ain’t no temporary, typical, tearful good-bye, uh uh uh
This ain’t no breakin’ up and wakin’ up and makin’ up one more time, uh uh uh
This is gone (gone) gone (gone) gone (gone) gone
Gone like a freight-train, gone like yesterday
Gone like a soldier in the civil war, bang bang
Gone like a ‘59 Cadillac
Like all the [...]