Lyrics:

I had a girl I knew, She grew, became a woman nowI think that she teaches atone of the schools downtownWe used to roll the windows down and play the music loudSmoking out in her carLost in west OmahaAnd we'd get drunk and kiss, our bodies twist like shoelacesAnd we never came untiedI guess you were just my typeYou know that summer never stopped, I still pretend I'm thereThe band's in the living roomThe neighbors, they never caredSo when I sat behind the drumsetYour heartbeat's what I tried to playBut with the kick and snare so careless, not in timeSo you got ahead of meAnd I guess I'm still dragging behindI had a friend who changed his name but couldn't change himselfNever quite figured outHow to deal with what life had dealtHe put a needle in his arm to calm his handsome hellWho would've imagined itCould've worked out so well?Now he's a shape that moves like echoes through my empty roomAnd there's a voice that speaksLike someone's right behind meI turned around and found exactly what you would expectThe clothes I left on my floorThe papers piled on my deskBut where the ink is wet, the cause, effects, what's meant by it?The story that is incompleteThe picture's left unfinishedSo I am writing my own endingI let my pen bleed black or blueAnd I will color in the meaningIt will be gold and green and shrewdAnd I'll learn to love my new discovered proofI'll be grateful for this dayI will be grateful for each day to come