Spirit

Slide like a spirit down the same old roads
You've been haunting these hills since the morning you were born
Now the cracks in the pavement are the cracks in your heart
You go over the same old faults
Every time you walk to the bar
Ain't you wet when you get there
Whether rain or tears or sweat?
And the wind shaking the panes
It's the same as in your chest

Yes, it's the same out there
As it is in here
It's the same out there
As it is in here

Why should it be different, should it be anything but that?
Should we open our mouths and spit out California sand?
Yeah we sing what we're given into a piece of shit p.a.
We sing grey foggy day
We sing no change in me
Yeah but it's arm in arm in arm
And ain't it loud enough to stun?
Hearing them all heaving along into the one same song

Oh is it the same out there
As it is in here?
Is it the same over there
As it is down here?

So pull your cloak around me now
Pull your cloak around me now
Pull me close and keep the cold night out
Oh lean in to me so you're near to me now
Once a stranger to me but
Now you're the song in my mouth

And you slide like a spirit out to
The icy step
Feel the night on your face,
The mist upon your lips
You pull the cloak around you,
As you listen to the wind
And you hum the refrain as you take the hill again