Old Broken String

Where are you going?

Ask my horse

Love, can you heal the sick?

Can you kill the sound of my body shaking?

And this old broken string

It's something in my soul

I'll take it with me

Wherever they tell me to go

I won't wait for my chances

Stop at the crossing all sideways glances

Look at the state of that U-turn

I just got the feeling, I

If I'd have known

This would take us

To the big old western plains

The things I lost on the way

I'd lose 'em all again

And you

With the trousers and the flames

I'll come looking for you one day

With my sorry eyes and my beard gone grey

And this old broken string

It's something in my soul

I'll take it with me

Wherever they tell me to go

I won't wait for my chances

Stop at the crossing all sideways glances

Look at the state of that U-turn

I just got the feeling, I

If I'd have known