Like Lions

Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog

Where no one notices the contrast of white on white

And in between the moon and you, the angels get a better view

Of the crumbling difference between wrong and right

Well, I walk in the air, between the rain

Through myself and back again, where? I don't know

Maria says she's dying, through the door I hear her crying, why, I don't know

'Round here, we always stand up straight

'Round here, something radiates

Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand

She said she'd like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis

And she walks along the edge of where the ocean meets the land

Just like she's walking on a wire in the circus

She parks her car outside of my house and takes her clothes off

Says she's close to understanding Jesus

And she knows she's more than just a little misunderstood

She has trouble acting normal when she's nervous

'Round here, we're carving out our names

'Round here, we all look the same

'Round here, we talk just like lions, but we sacrifice like lambs

'Round here, she's slipping through my hands

Sleeping children better run like the wind, out of the lightning dream

Mama's little baby better get herself in out of the lightning

She says it's only in my head, she says, shh, I know it's only in my head

But the girl on the car in the parking lot says, man, you should try to take a shot

Can't you see my walls are crumbling?

Then she looks up at the building, says she's thinking of jumping

She says she's tired of life, she must be tired of something 'round here

she's always on my mind, 'round here, hey man, got lots of time

'Round here, we're never sent to bed early, and nobody makes us wait

'Round here, we stay up very, very, very, very late

I, I can't see nothin', nothin' around here

You catch me if I'm fallin', you catch me if I'm fallin'

Will you catch me? 'cause I'm falling down, on you

I said I'm under the gun, 'round here

I'm innocent, I'm under the gun, 'round here

And I can't see nothin', nothin' 'round here