Nowhere But Here

You’re ate up with lonesome and wound tight as a snare drum
Sawing off your heartstrings on a stunt man stairs
The smoke and mirrors they don’t lack, that world that rides on your back
You’re hanging on by thread bare skin and lighting cigarettes with signal flares
And it’ll get you nowhere but here

Its barbed wire fence or pouring rain, and cutting deals with fake cocaine
The devil’s dance or waltz forever more
You’re bent backwards and worse off yet, you’re waking nights in cold hard sweats
Hurting for the girl you lost for sure
And it’ll get you nowhere no more

A few poignant words you search to say
As the minutes pass so fast through glass and the forlorn days
Decision’s made, and your skin it sears
And it’ll get you nowhere but here

You’re cutting ties with what you knew, it’s a simple life to start brand new
While clutching tight to days you held so dear
And hope’s real hard when life’s all chance, left to timing and circumstance
Son there ain’t no rudder on the ship you steer
And it’ll get you nowhere but here