Book of Days

the air here tastes like poison
 the traffic moves on broken roads
 the river runs like silver
 my own feelings let me down
 she's 14 and she's fading
 there's a wasted year for
 every train that passes
 she is leaving someday
 someday never comes
 this road is poison
 walk me to the wheels
 i fear for my life
 this road is poison
 lovers coo goodbye
 singing don't forget me boys
 tired of waiting in the cheap seats
 she is haunted by her failure here
 the river runs like silver
 my own feelings let me down
 she's 24 and feels it
 like a wasted year
 for every day that passes
 she is leaving one day
 one day never comes
 this road poison
 walk me to the wheels
 i fear for my life
 this road is poison
 lovers coo goodbye
 singing don't forget me boys
 in monday morning houses down
 through gravel yards and dirty smoke
 to somewhere on the sky line
 what i feel is still the same
 she's 40 and afraid that there's
 a wasted life for every town that passes
 she is leaving here but
 nothing here remains
 this road is poison
 walk me to the wires
 i fear for my life
 this road is poison
 lovers coo goodbye
 singing don't forget me boys