It's not the energy reeling Nor the lines in your face Nor the clouds on the ceiling Nor the clouds in the space
It's not to find the table On a bed on the earth On a bed in the stable Nor your stable words
Not the open [?] Not a cry in the air Not a girl I'm seeing With her long black hair Not the [?] Nor the furnace glow Nor the blood of your bleeding As you try to let go
[Chorus] It's not the room Not beginning Not the crowd Not winning Not the planet that's spinning Not the ruse, not heat Not the fire lapping up the creek Not food, not to eat Not the need of your side Nor your spine tattoo Nor your shin or your eye Nor the weight of your [?]
It's not the warm illusion Or the crack in the plate Nor the breadth of confusion Nor the [?] of slate
[Chorus] It's not the room Not beginning Not the crowd Not winning Not the planet that's spinning Not the ruse, not heat Not the fire lapping up the creek Not food, not to eat
Not what you really wanted Nor the mess in your purse Nor the bed that is haunted With the blanket of thirst Not the hunger revealing Nor the ricochet in the cave Nor the hand that is healing Nor the nameless grave
[Chorus] It's not the room Not beginning Not the crowd Not winning Not the planet that's spinning Not the ruse, not heat Not the fire lapping up the creek Not food, not to eat Not to die Not dying Not to laugh Not lying Not to vacate wilderness fighting [?] Not the room Not beginning Not the crowd Not winning Not the planet that's spinning