Pittsburgh

My mom'd give me twenty and say stay out till dawn
 When her boyfriend was over and they wanted me gone
 I would walk through the woods to the old graveyard
 And roll my own tops and think two kind of a thoughts
 Are we high enough to clear these trees?
 I don't know
 That was the summer dave's girlfriend OD'ed
 She died in the bathroom at a party down the street
 I went to see him the next night, he had a new tattoo
 He was watching home movies of her
 His face was wet, he looked so confused
 They had a funeral for her
 The preacher said she was with the Lord
 There were lots of pictures of her
 Taped to a poster board
 Are we high enough to clear these trees?
 I don't know
 Are we high enough to clear this place?
 I don't know
 Grocery stores in the middle of the night shine their own kinda light
 High school halls and shopping malls never fit me right
 But my heart would swing free like a lasso from my hand
 When I'd hear that sound and put the pedal down
 I wound up that fall in a hospital
 On the suicide wing with a lot of people thinkin' one thing
 They had a sign on the wall that said no touching at all
 There were screams in the dark, nurses running down the hall
 On the night that I got there they showered me and searched me hard
 Then they took me to my little room overlooking a graveyard
 When I opened my eyes I was strapped to the bed
 There was a needle in my arm, part of me was gone
 Then they took us outside in our slippers and gowns
 To play basketball on the blacktop, the ball just bounced till it stopped
 Are we high enough to clear these trees?
 I don't know
 Are we high enough to clear this place?
 I don't know
 Grocery stores in the middle of the night shine their own kinda light
 High school halls and shopping malls never did me right
 But my heart would swing free like a lasso from my hand
 When I'd hear that sound and put the pedal down
 When the leaves were wet behind the old duplex
 We used to run at night naked through the trees
 And you would lean back against me and I would try to stay soft
 We'd listen to the engines as the planes took off