Used to walk down The Drive

Heads purple and brown and blue

And we were so content

With the experience of life, yeah

We were so extreme

With streamers and sex in strange places

And never embarrassed - at all

Now I'm bouncing off the walls in this room

I'm sitting alone with all this stuff I shared with you

Hate to tell you

But these thoughts keep running over me

Like I'm a downtown street

I'm telling you true, true

Seems like this dream

This dream is just a waste of time, yeah

And I'm asking myself

Why, why, why, I said oh why, why, why?

Does it have to take so much pain

To figure out some things?

Been banging my head on the concrete

One too many times

I'm taking my stuff away from you

I'm taking my stuff away from you

And you were so intense

Like a Dylan in his early songs

Or a Dylan Thomas

I'm telling you true, true

Don't go gentle into that good night

You were in love with desperation

And it changed the world

Like some kind of mad archangel

Now I'm bouncing off the walls in this room

I'm sitting alone with all this stuff I shared with you

Hate to tell you

But this church of life brings a new reality into view

I'm telling you true, true

And it's changing the world

Well I think that it's changing us instead

Why, why, why, I said oh why, why, why?

Does it have to take so much pain

To figure out some things?

Been banging my head on the concrete

One too many times

I'm taking my stuff away from you

I'm taking my stuff away from you

It's like the worst things happen to me it seems

Must have some kind of reason or synchronicity

Hey, guess what?

You're turning my garden blue and all the flowers in it

I'm telling you true, true

But it's just a reflection of how

You're just a lesson to me now

Just a lesson to me now

Why, why, why, I said oh why, why, why?

Does it have to take so much pain

To figure out some things?

Been banging my head on the concrete

One too many times

I'm taking my stuff away from you

I'm taking my stuff away from you

I'm taking my stuff away from you

I'm taking my stuff away from you