Five Easy Pieces Revisited

Oh, Rayette darling, forgive me

All my life I have been dizzy

Dizzy in sound, searching for silence

Childhood doesn't live behind but inside us

And take me back to when I could

Play five easy pieces, beneath a Jesus

And the family tree, was branching out towards me

And Mama was still alive

And Papa wasn't about to die

So what

Oh Ray-Ray keep your mouth shut

And oh, Rayette, I'd watch ya float

Across the silver diner

As your long thin legs

Carry scrambled eggs

Mopping up vomit, singing sonnets for a kid who got sick

And oh, Rayette, you had dreams to sing at the Grand Ole Opry

And nobody can stop me

From stopping you for no good reason at all

And if deaths coming for us all

Then let death come before our fall

And I'm gone like a song on a train

I go from station to station until I pull into your brain

You spun the dial a while baby

Till you could hear me and the band playing

Oh I'm here, but I'm not staying

I'm gone

I'm gone

I'm gone

I'm gone