Part & Parcel

I've been taking the train from the dock to buy guitar strings

Singing songs six days a week, I never really liked myself

I've been sleeping in late, sold a song to a show on the TV

Made a couple bands, spend it on a string of dates with a penpal I will marry

And the timelines interweave, creating patterns

That I trace and fall asleep in my parents' basement

Take it all apart, it's part and parcel

I came here with a strange and earnest feeling

Chase all of these contradicting versions

Childhood perversions and dreams that never steered

Let them drive a little while

So that I can disappear

I've been living in my car, lost in a flea market, looking for my family

I met a girl in a little cafe, and along the way, we fell in love

I kiss her on the mouth in a hammock, we're headed back down south

Now she's roaring out a primitive yelp and giving birth

And the timelines interweave, creating patterns

That I trace and fall asleep underneath a pecan tree

Take it all apart, it's part and parcel

I came here with a strange and earnest feeling

Chase all of these contradicting versions

Childhood perversions, dreams that never steered

Let them drive a little while

So that I can disappear

Into the great unknown, I am nameless

A coward called courageous by virtue of my trade

I will fade on an idea

I will fade on an idea, oh

Let it drive a little while

So that I can disappear

I will fade on an idea

I will fade on an idea

I will fade on an idea

I will fade on an idea

I will fade on an idea

I will fade on an idea