Somebody somewhere told me that I should have never done what I did

But I didn’t listen, I’s on a mission, I’s just a scared little kid

The heart doesn’t break no it’s different than that

It cracks up slow over time

How do I know?

Can’t you see the glow

Leaking out of the cracks there

In mine?

But I’ll soldier on

No rest shall I have

Til the demons inside me subside

On a highway of bones

Laid out tooth to toe

My memory is buried alive

I paid the bounty

Two grand to the Mountie

Who let me pass by under wraps

I told him if I was alive this time next year

I’d surely be back

Next year I’ll surely be back

There’s as much weather stuck to the leather of the soul

As out on the plains

Canadian chains

They slip off the reigns

And pile up beneath your shoestrings

Somebody somewhere told me that I should have never done what I did

But I didn’t listen, I’s on a mission, I’s just a scared little kid

The heart doesn’t break no it’s different than that

It cracks up slow over time

How do I know?

Can’t you see the glow

Leaking out of the cracks there

In mine?