Palisade

I'm only days away

From givin' up this place

I need a change of pace

A change of ways

Some days, I don't fit in my own skin

I am uncomfortable

I guess 'cause, after all

I'm just a carbon ball

Housin' a soul

I'm just gettin' by and gettin' pretty good at sin

And every time I try to pray

A memory gets in the way

And I forget what it was I was supposed to say

Hidin' in my palisade

Writin' on a blank white page

Keeps my demons one more day away

I just can't understand

What makes a man a man

Is it his heart, or maybe the heart in his hands?

How much he's changed

Or maybe it's how much he's the same

If all this world's a tree

I'm just a withered leaf

I'll blow away, find me a new place to be

But, darlin', I hope you will love me just the same

And every time I try to pray

A memory gets in the way

And I forget what it was I was supposed to say

Hidin' in my palisade

Writin' on a blank white page

Keeps my demons one more day away