where are you now

You reaped what you'd sewn

Drove all night in spite of it all

The smell of exhaust

And cracks in the pavement guiding you home

But where are you now?

Sleeping in parking lots somewhere in some other town

Swindling all of your possessions

In lieu of your father

Peaking on warm Busch Light in August

Sifting through the couch

Trying to count some kind of blessing

There was something in the sound

Of the rain that night in Memphis

The sound of the cars

Ashed out the window under the stars

You pawned your guitar

Half-written love songs scrawled on the wall

'Cause where was he now?

Strung out on paradise somewhere in some other town

You never doubted for a second

In lieu of your mother

Lying in bed since last Thanksgiving

She let her days drift by

And nights in slow succession

Where are you now?

Where are we now?

Where are you now?

Where are they now?