Bare Metal

There were pine trees and smoke

And the light made me choke

As I walked back to the lake

In the halogen night

The campfire light

She was moving everywhere

Insolent towards everyone that said they knew me well

Glancing through the moonshine towards the brighter edge of hell

But I was meaner than the man that she was leaving

Deader than the man that she'd been grieving

Driving all night long to be alone

Driving all night long to be alone

I wiped off the dirt from her face with my shirt

And I was thinking it over then

Why I didn't have to stay, in an overblown way

I was thinking it over then

I felt that I could read her lines on the back of the opposite page

Were we closer to the metal than at a younger age

Still I was meaner than the man that she was leaving

Deader than the man that she'd been grieving

Driving all night long to be alone

Driving all night long to be alone

Seen again awhile

But only for a season

Moving back in time

But always for no reason

There was pine trees and smoke, the light made me choke

As I walked back to the lake