Oh failing sun The verses stole the taste from our tongues Carved in stiff board motel beds Where we wrote our resolutions In lonesome rooms across the land I kept my distance from the fights Put my knuckles through the plaster And said farewell by beacons where The city glowed like dying fireflies And when rest didn't find me I no longer sought it Spending nights with the moon Waiting on a rose to bloom Round and round it spins Round and round again ♪ Vicious words bounce off of the walls of that room I'm kicking curses into the ground again To give and live and yearn to lose what I gained From the miles tucked into the rear-view ♪ And I know that you're afraid of the haunts Those ideals lost, kicked and mocked By the abuses in American Nights The same songs, the same fights And I'm afraid these words don't mean a thing And I'm afraid this distance is everything And I'm afraid I will claw my whole life just to hear your voice in the night And I'm afraid this distance might be nothing