The water's colder out here
This clean air will drown our fears
It's not the air but the atmosphere
Drops of sunshine dries our tears
Under purple riddlin' skies
Take a load off sit for a while

Lookin over fields of melted gold
Let the nature be our mold
She's so numb she can't feel the cold
Be bold be bold but not too bold
Not countin' days on the sun gone down
Surrender to the silence of this land we've found
And we've found.....

Chorus
Escape at Blue lake fever,
where we can swim a little bit deeper
Escape at Blue lake fever
where we can climb a little bit steeper

Cracklin' blaze warmin' our toes
out here anything goes
The trees are still, the river flows
shades of moonlight warms our souls
Conversation through the night
the rhythm brings the morning light

Repeat Chorus

Bridge
And I owe you for leavin'
Yeah, I owe you for grievin'

Repeat chorus to outro

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Two girls go out to brawl
outside the Chicken Chef Shack
one reaches for a chicken bone
the other one goes for a gun on the gun rack
no there ain't no way out for this girl
now that their pathes have crossed

Ol' Lenny in the waterin' hole
so goddamn drunk at noon that he don't know
when he came in or when he'll leave
the key under the dorrmat he'll retrieve
to get in his trailer
drunkin' stuper

Chorus
But as he looks around himself
those bottle upon the shelves
he tilts back his thorny crown
cause he's so goddamn glad he chose to live in a small town

Groovy as she walks through the tall grass
sparklin; champagne in a tall glass
thirty paces north of the old hill
take a dip just to swim past the old mill
waitin' for the 3:11
revving tension

Chorus
Groovin' with her skirt hiked high
showin leg to the men as the train goes by
and when it's gone she drops it down
and goes back to her life as a wife in a small town

Interlude

Repeat first and second verse up tempo

In a small town, in a small town, in a small town

Bridge
Cause you know,
somebody knows him
somebody knows her
whiskey for my kin
I'm sittin' with her
so don't you know that you should always say hello cause you know that you
can't go wrong

Think of a bee
who's falsly accused of aggressitivity
But that's not why he presents himself
to intill fear in the heart
of Emily

But why can't she see
his love for beauty and flower
is why he came to her this evening
and not to quench his thirst for blood
but apathy

Chorus
Cause it's so hard to brand yourself
Masters of the Universe
you get dizzy from the world revolving
round' your head
outside the rain falls down cause you crushed a spider
my prayer goes out
where's my answer

You try to be quaint about it
try not to let it show
you're such a saint about it
but you and I both know
that you're covering cigarette holes in the back of your chevy
it's gettin' real hard to keep your right hand steady
crack the wine, give it to me all the time
it's a crime boys, six and a dime

Chorus
Your addiction to self apocalypse
is frowned upon by everyone
though you cry for a moonless night
the stars shine bright
and all this time I thought you weren't breaking down

You say you're only human baby
well what does that make me
a tridentless Neptune couldn't rule the depths of any sea
you're holding smoke in your mouth as your dad walks by
goin' out drinkin' is just an alibi
oh why do you need an alibi, oh why do you need an alibi

Chorus

You try to be quaint about it yeah
try not to let it show
your such a saint about it well
but you and I both know
that you're holdin' smoke in your mouth as your dad walks by
goin'out drinkin's just an alibi
oh why do you need an alibi oh why do you need an alibi

Chorus to outro

Hello today
tomorrow when I wake up I will blow my mind away
something's astray
there is no lighting down that long hallway
of life

Pre chorus
But when you come crawlin' back
to that same old flag
searchin' for someone somewhere
let me tell you my friend there'll be nobody there

Hello today
my hands are shaking in the most peculiar way
it's like they say
for a pine a fire's just a way
of life

Pre chorus
But when you come crawlin' back
to that same old flag
searchin' for someone somewhere
let me tell you my my friends there'll be nobody there

Chorus
Nothin's gonna change
your song will remain
in the midst of idle despair
just worry bout' what you wear and the color of your hair

Hello today
save your sorrows for the hour of yesterday
you'll find your way
just take the long way forgettin that its dark

Pre chorus

Chorus

Hello today, hello today, hello today

Hello today
tommorow when I wake up I will blow my mind away