Black Sheep

I can't seem

To get it down just yet

Not a pipe dream

Just the average day by day

I know it might seem

Like a widely shared complaint

But yet it's just me

Who's running several hours late

If I could just be another southern strummer

In a bluegrass band

And with a Greyhound ticket get a first class

Lay of the land

But they never trust me

They disregard my hand

With no use for bluffing I'm calling

For all that I can

I can't seem

To get it down just yet

Not a pipe dream

Just the average day by day

And I can't sleep

With all the visions in my head

But it's the black sheep

Who's never counted either way

Get with the routine

And when I'm tired seek my bed

Enter a new scene

From the comfort of my head

Slowly, it accosts me

Lonely and it's costly

Home again it's lost me

So far it's brought me

What of all it's cost me?

What's matte to glossy

Is wholly exhausting

'Til slowly resolving

I'm calling out

I can't seem

To get it down just yet

Not a pipe dream

Just the average day by day

And I can't sleep

With all the visions in my head

But it's the black sheep

Who's never counted either way