GREEN STREET LULLABY (DARK SAD SONG)

there's a boy here with a guitar
i see him play most every night
he puts his name up on the chalkboard
puts his heartache up in light
but there's a crow on the marquee
the same old stillness in the air
he starts a song about the highway
but it ain't going anywhere

'cause there's a dark sad song
no one can take the sound
enough to write it down
a dark sad song stuck in the throat of this town

the copperheads fill all the ditches
the kudzu chokes the trees
mosquitoes hum like window units
but you gotta move if you want a breeze
i turn the key, i'm up and over
here's where the circle comes undone
i turn the radio up real loud
'cause i ain't fooling anyone about the dark sad ...

a lullaby of whispers, black as cancer, calls me friend
and i wanna take a good swing at 'em
turn and scream into the wind
but from the back of my mind to the tip of my tongue
there is room to lie down and sleep it off
you're still young
there's still time, you're still young
and there's always tomorrow ...