Somewhere in the dust lies the fragments of my dreams Left without a wimper or a trace They have been burned beneath the ashes, levelled by the taxes paid and I was left with nothing but my face It seems all my peers have hit the pavement Wearing down there shoes, I'm in a rustic restaurant near tennessee It took one look in that mirror and one flip through the pages of my youth to see how much I have dissolved When I see pretty people in pretty cars drive up and down the boulevards I know i'm not in the right place, See the times they are a changing, I hope that all my fantasies might grace me with their presence again The silver zippo lighter danced the shadows off their face Between a border and a water fall serene Where your neighbours burning tires, the soot from all the fires killed the neighbourhood it all became mundane To all my weak and distant lovers, fallen friends and brothers I've put my emotions on parade, left a piece of you in phrases, in between the pages and marvelled at each beautiful embrace But when I look out to see my girls on dewy green and backlit pearl, I'll know i've come to the right place, these are the times, these are the ages i hope that all my fantasies might grace me with their presence again Oh, keeping the roots strong Keeping the ghosts of families past living on through their own homes Oh, stomping the old grounds The barn burning down on a sheet in november near the farm in the old town