Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog
Where no one notices the contrast of white on white
In between the moon and you, the angels get a better view
Of the crumbling difference between wrong and right
And I walk in the air between the rain through myself andback again
Where, I don't know
Maria says she's dying, through the door I hear her crying
Why, I don't know
'Round here, we always stand up straight
'Round here, something radiates
Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand
She said she'd like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis
And she walks along the edge of where the ocean meets theland
Just like she's walking on a wire in the circus
She parks her car outside of my house and takes her clothesoff
And says she's close to understanding Jesus
And she knows she's more than just a little misunderstood
She has trouble acting normal when she's nervous
'Round here, we're carving out our names
'Round here, we all look the same
'Round here, we talk just like lions, but we sacrifice likelambs
'Round here, she's slipping through my hands
Oooh, sleeping children better run like the wind
Out of the lightning dream
Mama's little baby better get herself in
Out of the lightning
She says it's only in my head
She says "shhh", I know, it's only in my head
But the girl on the car in the parking lot says "man, youshould try to take a shot
Can't you see my walls are crumbling?"
Then she looks up at the building, says she's thinking ofjumping
She says she's tired of life, she must be tired of something
'Round here, she's always on my mind
'Round here, hey man, got lots of time
'Round here, we're never sent to bed early and nobody makesus wait
'Round here, we stay up very, very, very, very late
I, I can't see nothing, nothing around here
Oooh, you catch me if I'm falling, you catch me if I'mfalling
You catch 'cause I'm fallin' down on you
I said I'm under the gun around here
I'm innocent, I'm under the gun around here
And I can't see nothing, nothing 'round here
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