Turn away from the pain you don't want

Turning down to avoid them when they call

Strange words I heard a long, long time ago

I wish I could go back to a summertime

I knew more than twenty years ago

Lay between the sheets

Lie underneath the maple tree

Now I can't smile

Lying down in the grass with the wind around us

As we smile and talk

Listen to your grandma sing those country songs

She'd tell us how the maple turns to fire every four years

We'd lay in the grass all summer

Just to watch the autumn come around

I can't smile

I can't smile, yeah yeah yeah

Now I live alone

And you're so far away

Yeah, I call you every year

Just around the holidays

I still see you in the night

Lying above me in the grass

I can't smile

Turn away from the pain you don't want

Turning down to avoid them when they call

I can't believe this letter that says you died

I think I'm gonna go back to the house

In North Carolina and lay in the backyard

Get drunk and let the leaves just bury me, bury me

I can't smile

I can't smile

I don't what's happened to me

I don't what's happened to me

I can't smile, hey