I was sittin' in the rocking chair by the side of the house Where the streetlight stars and all the highway cars Claps on the drapes on your window I'll get something to eat, but all the spaces I meet Seem so hypnotizing These eyes are exits to be Oh, and things ain't what they used to be Got this flickering heart set out after me If my mind was a poem, well, I burned it up long before If I drink some more, well, I think I might drown Slip into silence as my heart it burns out Find the devil inside me and I nail him back down Whoa If the day would ever come around, shiver at the sight Finally lookin' out through these little pane eyes Our stringed clothes, put me aside I'll slowly die for my sins, swallow my sins whole His eyes, they were bigger than his belly ever was (Ooh) Oh, and things ain't what they used to be Got this flickering heart set out after me If my mind was a poem, well, I burned it up long before If I drink some more, well, I think I might drown Slip into silence as my heart it burns out Find the devil inside me and I nail him back down Whoa