The Simple Joy

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I can barely tell the cattle roads from the chemtrails of our past lives From this here cloud where I now stand My school was a dunk-tank clown for some schoolyard lass to chastise My ribcage was a looney bin built to keep my heart out of her hands I keep busy in the daytime charging glow worms Joys less simple seem to feel like child's play now Perhaps the love we had was not what made the globe turn But more akin, in fact, to what made the cows lay down Oh, the simple joy Oh, the simple joy Home was close, death was hard, friends are both You can't put a sticker pricе on hurt Trust is a flower that is toxic to some and it grows from benеath I learned that time is not my friend or my foe, more like one of the guys from work And life was a safe if you could crack it or not I slapped the factory clock with a rose in my teeth Those who helped grow me didn't know me, kinda lonely, nearly landed a kill shot 'Till I grew up and started living alone Now, you can spell RIP in limestone on a hilltop With the sediment they cried when I didn't come home Oh, the simple joy Oh, the simpler loneliness I've been yankin' business cards from community boards since I was a boy Now I'm trading my doubles for the circuit judge's home address Bump the farmhouse, hum up the city of noise Are we getting any closer to me knowing what the point of this is? The point of all these simple joys Oh, the point of all these simpler lonelinesses I've got a name for every one of my dollars, not counting what's in the carseats I numbered out a list of miscellaneous reasons to explain why I'm leaving, not counting the reasons unclear If you need a proper goodbye, I could still catch the last bus to Marcy's But you could train a parrot to do what we do when we end up there Squawkin' all night about the simple joy Talking all night about the simpler loneliness 'cause it's only at night that the farmhouse confides in the city of noise And tonight it feels I'm only feeling with the feelings that I don't express Or does this life think it is to deprive its contestants' joy? How you gonna pit a Vietnam vet against a measly cigarette that still somehow ain't killed? How can it be that such an infinite payroll that one's loneliness employs? Who am I to try to shut a country singer's mouth when they're still singing about Hank Williams? I can barely tell the cattle roads from the chemtrails of our past lives From this here cloud where I now stand My ribcage was what but a looney bin built to keep my deranged heart out of your hands I was hardly known to God, much less those who had sought to make their home in a bullseye 'Till I grew older and I started travelling on Now, you can spell RIP in limestone on a hillside With the sediment, they cried since I've been gone Oh, the simple joy Oh, the simpler loneliness I've been yankin' business cards from community boards since I was a boy Now I'm trading my doubles for the circuit judge's home address The simple loneliness will do, they can throw me in the shoe, for all I care You tell them everything I know bout the simple joy and I won't plead the fifth I'll run what's left of the clock down doing pushups and cheating at solitaire Singing all night about the simpler lonelinessess Singing all night about the simple joy Singing all night about the simple joy Singing all night about the simple joy