Hi, Beth (hi, babe)

Oh, I was just callin′ ya to chat with ya

I'm prolly gonna have to get upAt the buttcrack of dawn tomorrow (why?)

Oh, I hear Patsy backed out on ya tomorrow

Is she- (why you told mommy we keep her?) Dammit, John (hm?)

I lost that frickin′ steel line (ugh), shit! (Okay, it's alright)

Go fuckin' find it (ah, shit, I′m lookin′, man)

Ha-ha, fuck (see I told you my head don't work right)

Yeah, you don′t have to tell me that

I'm in the car, I just needed to clear my head

She′s in the house with the baby cryin' on the bed

She′s got this thing where she puts up the walls so high

It doesn't matter how much you love

It doesn't matter how hard you try

We got a place with a fence and a little grass

I put this film on the windows, and it looks like chapel glass

But when she turns, it′s like the shadow of the cross don′t cast

No blessin' over our lonely life

It′s like waiting for a train to pass, I don't know when it′ll pass

But I remember when she used to set the room on fire

With her eyes, swear to God

It's like a flood of grief and sorrow from a haunted life

When she cries like a train, it′s a lot

I dropped a line to a flickerin' high school flame

We laughed about all the ways that our lives had changed

She's up the road, about 35 miles north

Got two little boys in school, just had a real bad divorce

And in a moment of weakness

I told her if she ever needed a helping hand

I would lend, swear to God

It′s like the part of me that′s screamin' not to jump gets lost

In the sound of the train, it′s a lot

Tryin' hard

Not to care

Swear to God

I′m in the car outside

I'm in the car outside

I′m in the car outside

I'm in the car outside