By the station where you

Wanted to know

How the world turned so plain



Told you and you took it to heart

You said someday I'll be someone

Oh I'm gonna be such a star



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And sleep with your eyes open

Try to keep from choking

On those words that the wrote for you



Cities and state lines are blind

By the road side as the

Exits collide,

and the numbers are to new heights



A rest stop here a couple of beers

Oh here's to new friends and a light big career

And you drown in your sorrows in fire and whine

And you wonder were you went wrong all the time



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Sleep with your eyes open

Try to keep from choking

On those words that the wrote for you



And all the things you do...



All the words that your saying

And the flowers you've laid

Are all falling backwards



The places and names

The fortune and fame

Are all falling backwards



Your still two months from home

You feel so alone

Its all falling backwards



Falling backwards

Falling backwards



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And sleep with your eyes open

Try to keep from choking

On those words that the wrote for you



And all the things they do to

Make you over

Know that when its over

Ill be here looking back at you

When all the drugs fall through