Strangelands

Me and Johanna
Fell from the sky
On the very same night
Into the same little town

Like there was some kind
Of weird meaning behind it
Somehow

I remember your daddy
So big and strong
How all of us kids would
Always try to wrestle him down

Then his breathing got strange
It only took 14 days
It was the cigarettes they said

If something like that
Could happen to someone like him
The world we thought we knew
Was something else
Something sinister and mean
Underneath those summer fields
Some kinda strangeland

Your mother re-married
Within seven months
And that's when you learned
Not all adults are nice

In the worst kinda way
I never knew what to say

And it felt in a way you regretted the things
You had told me
And I stopped coming by to your house every day after school
And you... drifted further away
Into the strangelands

You started hangin'
With the worst possible crowd
While I started dreamin'
About leaving this town

It was only me and the band
And our big future plans... oh well...

And then I stayed away for so long that I felt like a traitor
I just want you to know that if you ever need me I'll come around
All these shows that I've played
Every song that I've ever made
Was about you
In some strange way