Punishing Time

Punishing Time
I can't promise when you call, that I'll always hear you
I can still hear Nashville ringing, and it's ringing deep down in my ear
It was a long way, and the price I paid is there was nothing there to find
But a punishing time
CHORUS:
It ain’t different, it's never over, it's always there wherever you go
It's always been the same and it's always been this way
A little bit dark a little bit scary, sometimes it's more than I can carry
So I'll lay it down and leave it where it lays
‘Til it comes back again

Left with a head that's humming, buzzing like a telephone wire
Here in the middle, caught in the teeth of a punishing time
I pressed on, just to get back here so I could watch you cry, then I made you cry
Chorus
The scenes have run together, like some out of focus movie that won't end
And the distorted sounds they've shouted down, any real things that got said
And the things that I've forgotten, well they hurt me more than the things that I recall
I just don't know

Writer: Billy Eli copyright 2012