We were tight-knit boys, Brothers in more than name You would kill for me And knew I'd do the same And it cut me sharp hearing you'd gone away But everything goes away Yeah, everything goes away But I'm gonna be here till I'm nothing but bones in the ground
And I was there when you grew restless and left in the dead of night And I was there when three months later you were standing in the door all beat and tired And I stepped aside
Everything goes away Yeah, everything goes away But I'm gonna be here till I'm nothing but bones in the ground So quiet down
We were opposites at birth I was steady as a hammer And no one worried 'cause they knew just where I'd be And they said you were the crooked kind and you would never have no worth But you were always gold to me
Back when we were kids We swore we knew the future And our words would take us halfway 'round the world But I never left this town And you never saw New York And we ain't ever crossed the sea
But I am fine with where I am now This home is home and all that I need But for you this place is shame But you can blame me when there's no one left to blame Oh, I don't mind
All my life I've never known where you've been There were holes in you, the kind that I could not mend And I heard you say, right when you left that day, Does everything go away Yeah, everything goes away But I'm gonna be here till forever So just call when you're around