Well, the songs you sung spiraled and hung round like echoes or ripples on a pond So you circled the globe spent a year on the road without ever going home More than a couple of days then you leave right away Run to a girl you barely know But you like how she sings and you can't help but think That there is something that she knows and could teach you Well, you're sleeping in that southern state where the bars are filled with people you can't hate But try as you try and you still can't relate to them You drink that whiskey down as they ask you Are you who you say you are? The fact that we can't tell makes us like you even more So you are trying again or just visiting friends One had just had his heart broke For the first time in his life he realized there are times When you can't make it alone So now you are giving advice as if you had the right To use a word like love It's a negotiable term, what gets said is not what is heard So it's different then for everyone But you've been hanging around that college town with your new life your new lover you found And you are keeping her up at night bringing her down She'll watch you drink yourself to death but she won't ask you Is this really what you want? Or are you just sticking with it now cause it's all you got?