Me And You

Looking back at the time

And the lines

Of the stories that never quite got told

Looking back here and there

At bits and pieces, fragments of a rhyme

Clearing my old mind

Of the grudges I do not hold

And maybe somewhere down a six string

Near a green highway sign 

That reads mile marker 192

You will find a piece of me

Lost to a suppressed memory

And the story will ring of fiction

But I swear to god it's true

There was a time, sweeter than yesterday's wine,

There was a time for me and you

We know the years have changed our traveling plans,

With a hardened heart, you went east to claim your fortune

And most likely you can find me

Camped somewhere near the rio grande

It's true that our freedom was the most important thing there was

Ain't it funny now, something that seems so simple,

Can mean something so different to the two of us

And it turned out so different

Than the pictures that we painted

In the words of the fairytales 

You used to ask me to write

I guess I found salvation

In the words of a fable

About an unblemished princess

With a crown that turned out to be pyrite

And maybe somewhere down a six string

Near a green highway sign 

That reads mile marker 192

You will find a piece of me

Lost to a suppressed memory

And the story will ring of fiction

But I swear to god it's true

There was a time, sweeter than yesterday's wine,

There was a time for me and you

From the Carolina's to Colorado

So many black tops of asylum 

Running from the thing I was most scared to leave

So many bottles and full throttle

Thousands of highway miles

And a few young girls who didn't mind granting my reprieve 

We know the years have changed our traveling plans,

With a hardened heart, you went east to claim your fortune,

And most likely you can find me

Camped somewhere near the rio grande