Ticking

(So like that?)

I'm cuttin' ties with things that bind my heart to this world

I love you and I'm willing but I cannot keep you girl

Philly by the morning and Ohio by the night

The thing about a long rope is you can't hold on too tight

♪

On wooden floors and coffee cups

Stepped on and all used up

But I reckon that's what mornings are for

And everyone thinks they know me now, in these

Closed-minded leave-me towns

But I'm too young to even know myself

There's wheels running down the interstate

Oh, Lord I'll wait

Another day

'Cause I ain't close to you

There's time, ticking, on the interstate

And Lord I hate

That I ain't close to you

♪

And all my friends have moved away

Some got jobs and some got saved

They talk to me like I'm still that kid

The fighting, fiendin' Okie sun

The restless, reckless hopeful one

Who once was proud of everything he did

Do you remember 25?

Long legs and loving time

Seems like ten lifetimes ago

I'm cuttin' ties with things that bind my heart to this world

I love you and I'm willing, but I

Really have to go

There's wheels running down the interstate

Oh, Lord I'll wait

Another day

'Cause I ain't close to you

There's time, ticking, on the interstate

I'm fightin' fate

And Lord I hate

That I ain't close to you

♪

I'm cuttin' ties with things that bind my heart to this world

I love you and I'm willing, but I cannot keep you girl

Philly by the morning and Ohio by the night

The thing about high hopes is you can't hold on too tight