[Verse 1]
I grew up here now all of my life
But I dreamed someday I’d go
Where the blue-eyed girls and red guitars and
The naked rivers flow

I’m not all I thought I’d be
I always stayed around
I've been as far as Mercy and Grand
Frozen to the ground

[Verse 2]
I can’t stay here and I’m scared to leave
Just kiss me once and then
I’ll go to hell, I might as well
Be whistlin’ down the wind

The bus is at the corner
The clock on the wall
Broken down windmill
There’s no wind at all
I’ve yelled and I cursed
If I stay here I’ll rust
I’m stuck like a shipwreck
Out here in the dust

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]
The sky is red and the world’s on fire
And the corn is taller than me
The dog is tied to a wagon of rain
And the road is as wet as the sea

[Chorus 2]
And sometimes the music from a dance
Will carry across the plains
And the places that I’m dreaming of
Do they dream only of me?

[Verse 4]
There are places where they never sleep
And the circus never ends
So I will take the Marleybone coach

And be whistling down the wind
so I will take the Marleybone coach
Whistling down the wind

Well there’s one thing you can’t lose
It’s that feel
Your pants, your shirt, your shoes
But not that feel

You can throw it out in the rain
You can whip it like a dog
You can chop it down like an old dead tree
You can always see it
When you’re coming into town

Once you hang it on the wall
You can never take it [Em7sus4]down

But there’s one thing you can’t lose
And it’s that feel
You can pawn your watch and chain
But not that feel
It always comes and finds you
It will always hear you cry
I cross my wooden leg
And I swear on my glass eye
It will never leave you high and dry
Never leave you loose
It’s harder to get rid of than tattoos

But there’s one thing you can’t do
Is lose that feel
You can throw it off a bridge
You can lose it in the fire
You can leave it at the altar
But it will make you out a liar
You can fall down in the street
You can leave it in the lurch
Well you say that it’s gospel
But I know that it’s only church

And there’s one thing you can’t lose
And it’s that feel
It’s that feel