Woke up this morning,
my blood gone cold
Heard the echoes of the dead
making their way back home
Lately I've been feeling
just a little bit
And maybe I'm more afraid
than ever wanted to believe
But I can't stop thinking
about the departed
Where they go and they leave
It's outside,
it's just scorched earth and ashes
As far as I can see
And the voice on the radio
is screaming to me
So dang, nothing you can do now,
boy, to turn back fate, yeah
A few dollars short, new world,
born too late
Anybody trying to slow this thing down
is making the same mistake
And it doesn't take long
Forget what the world looks like
before it all went wrong
You won't miss it at all, after it's gone
Well, it wasn't long ago
we weren't talking about the end
The change was coming,
you could feel it on the wind
So I straightened my wheels out
and I tried to chase it down
But I wound up spun out
and stranded in some gutless little town
And I figured,
maybe I could get something started there
Might as well stick around
So I unpacked my dreams
and arranged them on the shelf
Started passin' out
little pieces of myself
Learned soon enough
there's only so much you
can give away
Before your eyes look
hollowed out
and your nerve starts to decay
But you stare back at yourself
long enough
You don't even see the change
And it didn't take long,
you talked yourself out
of a feeling you held so wrong,
like you won't miss it at all
after it's all gone.
After a while, I guess restlessness set in
I started feeling the breeze
as it changed again
So I stepped outside
and joined the voices
singing in the street
We watched the cars rushin' by,
spread the rain back at our people
When the sun went down,
everybody else had some place
they just had to be
So I settled my debts
and headed back down south
No shortage of opinions
spillin' out of my mouth
And I said, when I die,
you can scatter my ashes
anywhere but here
It won't take long
I'll confuse your faces
and forget your songs
And I won't miss you at all
She shook my
city with her grin
And swept the rubble out with her sigh
And if she wasn't perfect
She wore a perfect disguise
She said she was selfish
But she wasn't mean
I said I'd settle for something
Somewhere in between
Call my name out
like some sacred verse in Washington
Do a bid down the alley
in somebody else's ears
Well, all things considered
I guess it could have been worse
I didn't take long
Started wondering where the
hell I went wrong
An d who's gonna miss me
after she's gone?
So I drifted for a while
between the living an d the dead
My sorrow drowned out
by the static in my head
Clouds caught fire
and I settled back down on the ground
I started digging through the dirt
before the storm had kicked around
When the sky had cleared,
I took a look at what I'd found
I found the devil
between the fire and land
Hearts corroded by ven
geance and time
And I found the evidence of faith
in the station to the cross
And I found the seeds of war
buried in the graveyard to the lost
And I found the note somebody wrote
Said all this leaving
better be worth the cost
Cause it doesn't take long
The world keeps spinning and faking,
floating right along
But you know everybody's got
somebody going to mess it up
Kasey Anderson 
