Well, hell, I started out as somebody else

Bulldozed by some bygone dreams and left with just myself

From college on to Carhartts to hardly even gettin' on base

I'm sayin', "Hey, I know how to fix this, I'll take it out on some interstate"

As another Gibson-flashin' upstart tinged in some vintage style

Seedin' wind from Memphis, clear on to the Ego Islands

Till I met the downside upside my head

By the iglood hand of an Indiana HVAC man

Well, he whopped me once across the jaw and he said I said somethin' weird

Well, I don't recall what it was, but I couldn't shave my beard

For nearly nine weeks after that the scar tissue's still there

He said, "You'd better get started thinkin', son, that's gon' be happenin' everywhere"

Say, how long since you loved somebody?

How long since you loved somebody?

How long since you loved somebody

A little more than you do you?

So I fished for a premonition off the docks of wakin' time

A little injured and engendered by some addled battle cry

Belongin' to a long-gone bunch of hunches of the mind

And aweigh I yanked the anchor, see what else that I could find

Castin' nets, deep in debt down some past forgotten hall

Where the only Chick-fil-A back in the day was in the mall

Yeah, where even where you crash and burn nobody's there to hear me call

And the only eyes in my home was just my mirror on the wall

Said how long since you loved somebody

Loved somebody

Loved somebody

A little more than you do you?

Loved somebody

Loved somebody

Loved somebody

A little more than you do you

(Loved somebody

Loved somebody

Loved somebody)

(Loved somebody, loved somebody

Loved somebody, loved somebody

Loved somebody, loved somebody)