[Verse 1]
I'm traveling in some vehicle
I'm sitting in some café
A defector from the petty wars
That shell shock love away
[Verse 2]
There's comfort in melancholy
When there's no need to explain
It's just as natural as the weather
In this moody sky today
[Verse 3]
In our possessive coupling
So much could not be expressed
So now, I am returning to myself
These things that you and I suppressed
[Verse 4]
I see something of myself in everyone
Just at this moment of the world
As snow gathers like bolts of lace
Waltzing on a ballroom girl
[Interlude 1]
[Verse 5]
You know, it never has been easy
Whether you do, or you do not, resign
Whether you travel the breadth of extremities
Or stick to some straighter line
[Verse 6]
Now here's a man and a woman sitting on a rock
They're either going to thaw out, or freeze
Listen: strains of Benny Goodman
Coming through the snow and the pinewood trees
[Verse 7]
I'm porous with travel fever
But you know I'm so glad to be on my own
Still, somehow, the slightest touch of a stranger
Can set up trembling in my bones
[Verse 8]
I know no one's gonna show me everything
We all come and go unknown
Each so deep and superficial
Between the forceps and the stone
[Interlude 2]
[Verse 9]
Well, I looked at the granite markers
Those tributes to finality, to eternity
And then I looked at myself here
Chicken scratching for my immortality
[Verse 10]
In the church they light the candles
And the wax rolls down like tears
There is the hope and the hopelessness
I've witnessed thirty years
[Verse 11]
We're only particles of change, I know, I know
Orbiting around the sun
But how can I have that point of view
When I'm always bound and tied to someone?
[Verse 12]
White flags of winter chimneys
Waving truce against the moon
In the mirrors of a modern bank
From the window of a hotel room
[Interlude 3]
[Verse 13]
I'm traveling in some vehicle
I'm sitting in some café
A defector from the petty wars
Until love sucks me back that way