Dream softly tonight

Breathe easy the cold air of this life

I'm not sure how I arrived

At the choices I made but I made them

I walk along the grass; it's cold and dead

All the cars roar past, they own this world

The headlights move fast, they're in such a hurry

They light up their paths in a blinding fury

And I don't need hope when I just keep on hurling

I don't need no love I got plenty of hurting

She don't hear my cries echo up through dark skies

We all stand in line for the final surprise

I've been digging the same old graves

From the strike against midnight 'til the first break of day

Sleep in peace for one night

Carry the fire always on the inside

Back home nothing has changed

Maybe the weather, 

Not the beat of the days

And when I'm there at last I'll lay in bed

Half way across the map, a whole new world

My thoughts will race fast they're in such a hurry

They light up their paths in a blinding fury

I've been buried before in the city that I love

Beneath the sidewalks that I walked

And the trains that I rode

All the buildings I lived in and the streets that I drove

Like a ship I was wrecked in our lake's freezing depth

In the place I was born - the jewel of the Midwest

Like a ship I was wrecked in the jewel of the Midwest