Dallas

I lost a good friend in Dallas, had a heart too big for these angry miles
I was a one night stand in Dallas, for him it was the end of the line
and these walls that we build up so high they crumble
like a grown man crying

At a bar in California, tobacco stains all in his eyes
he said, let me be the first to warn you, we got rich people making all the rules and it just ain't right
it's a thing called greed and it spreads like a wild fire

It all seemed so clear while we were drinking
I knew how to set the whole world straight
but the sun came like a thousand bells ringing
and I found I'd just been looking at it sideways

Now I can't be here, I can't leave here, worrying the knots and the scars in the wood
I can't stop looking in the rear view, trying to find a way to do just a little bit of good
if I knew how to keep the sky from falling
don't you think I would?

And I worry 'bout these heavy hotel curtains
I wonder what it is we're trying to hide?
The darkness, it'll find you that's for certain
don't we all get born with a little bit of light to shine?