Only the Song Survives

I woke her up twice in the middle of the night
 To ask what her name is and where she might live
 To ask how many fingers she saw in this light
 To ask if she might know what gives
 She said we rolled that Camaro like a cowboy cigarette
 Out on the highway in a puddle of beer
 That's just about how close to death you're gonna get
 Till the only thing standing is fear
 CHORUS:
 Singing, oh darling, faces were changed
 The names of the innocent, the story at five
 Oh darling, faces get strange
 But only the song survives
 She said, now don't you remember they put a patch on your eye
 Like Dread Pirate Roberts, you looked so unplanned
 They cut off my wedding ring and you started to cry
 A one-eyed Niagara Falls man
 CHORUS
 I said, but I never married - I said with surprise
 And is this the diamond you said that you lost
 It was under my eyelids when they flushed out my eyes
 Hell and I don't know what the thing cost
 CHORUS TWICE
 But I woke up sweating to breakfast in bed
 And there were my children, and there was my wife
 Post-traumatic stress, of just a bump on the head
 Or maybe the ride of my life
 CHORUS TWICE