All I’ve Ever Known

In a fifteen-passenger van to Ohio The Chrysler invention hums and blows Warm air through the vents sends it straight to the bone Outside it's nine bellow It's a pain I've never known I lost my heart to the great golden state And the lanterns in little Tokyo If the fumes don't kill you first, then the dreaming surely will You tell me on the phone It's a pain you've never known I look out the window And let my mind wander From order to the open sky And sometimes I swear I'll just never return But it's all I've ever known It's all I've ever known Will you take me as I am? In perfect obedience to all these demands I'm a child to the wonder, but a victim of the change When I see you again, will I know what to say? I'm not immune to a piece of bad news I just do what I must to move on Give me truth but put me under so I don't feel a thing It's the only way I know It's the only way I know I hear nothing, no rescue coming Just church bells drawing out the dogs I'm afraid that you were made by invention and odds are I may never know I may never know Will you take me as I came? In this resistance to the sound of my name I'm a daughter to the mystery but a servant to strain When I see you again, will I know what to say? Will I know what to say? Will I know what to say? You're all I've ever known You're all I've ever known You're the only thing that I know And I'm afraid of what I don't, don't know You're all I've ever known You're all I've ever known