Map Of The World

There's a map of the world on the wall in your room

Green pins where you wanna go

White pins where you've been, there isn't even ten

And you're already feeling old

Pretty faces stare back from the magazine stack

That you read when you're feeling bored

Look through a telescope lens, it doesn't make sense

You think you've been there before

Some far off feeling, some up close kind of ache

A wide screen reason to look the other way

There's a place by the lake that you go when it's late

In the summer when the crowds are gone

And you sit all alone with your thoughts getting stoned

Just waiting for some peace to come

Like the thing that you tried that you thought that you liked

For a minute then it all felt wrong

So you change it again, all your clothes, all your friends

It's the same as it ever was

That far off feeling, that up close kind of ache

Some wide screen reason to look the other way

It's the road that you paved over Indian graves

And you wonder why your dreams are crazed

So you cling to your wife, your kids, your life

There's nothing that you're gonna save

Put the razor to your face, hot water for a shave

Kill the shadow of yesterday

Clean shirt, clean pants, clean slate, second chance

You're going by another name

Some far off feeling, an up-close kind of ache

That instant karma always comes too late