Where I Thought I Met the Angels

Never once an ocean
 could hold me on its shore
 standing calm with all its motion
 with all the movement of its flow
 cause I know way back in the distance
 all the safer sorrows burned
 the ones with no intent to drown you
 the ones where nothin's to be learned
 so now i'm headin' down a back road
 the one that no one really takes
 'cept for me now to be nowhere
 when that early morning breaks
 Now I'm dancin' with the mad girls
 the ones who sin out by the town
 who were brought up by bell towers
 and always nurtured by its sound
 I heard them sing out in their language
 already when I was still free
 oh God I thought I heard the angels
 what kind of fool'd you put in me?
 'Cause now I'm tied by up by a back road, y'know
 the one that no one really takes
 'cept for me now to be nowhere
 when that early morning breaks
 They sure won't let me leave this summer
 no no no
 and they won't let me go this fall
 and with the likelihood of winter
 they'll take the heat out of us all
 just to deliver all their daughters
 to track down sons of serpent roads
 and let me look out over slaughter
 to have a night out with the boys
 And now i'm takin' off the back road, y'know
 the one that no one really takes
 'cept for me now to be nowhere
 when that early morning breaks