A Tall Stand of Pines

Lost my way graduation day
One sunny morning, one spectacular May
I got far too charming on chardonnay
And I woke up naked out on Biscayne Bay
Now, I know the night like the back of my day
Even I'm having a hard time finding my way
Having one hell of a time finding my way
Back to a tall stand of pines

I shacked up with a dame
With the sun in her mane
Velvet loins and a funny last name
I had no way of knowing why she was going insane
Till the law caught her D-E-A-ling cocaine
You have no idea how much that explains
But it's safe to say I lost more than a day
Just another wrong turn on the long way around to the pines

Pardon me, handsome stranger do you happen to know the time?
I can't find a trace of 1988 or 89
If you see the ghost of my daredevil youth go racing by (woah-yeah)
Flag him down and let him know
That I'll be running a good ways behind
And he can wait for me
In the shade of a tall stand of pines
A tall stand of pines

I fell under the spell of a pansexual belle
With one barefoot in heaven and one high heel in hell
She caught on to my fears with her keen sense of smell
Man, if handcuffs could talk all the tales they could tell
Somehow I clawed my way up the walls of her well
Man I shook off the moss and saw how far I fell
Another bombshell successfully repelled on the way to the pines

Pardon me, handsome stranger do you happen to have the time?
I can't find a trace of 1988 or 89
If you see the ghost of my daredevil youth go racing by (woah-yeah)
Flag him down and let him know
That I'll be running a good ways behind
And he can wait for me
In the shade of a tall stand of pines
A tall stand of pines

Now I sailed in the Keys
And I scaled the Cascades
And I stared down a gator in the Florida glades
And I just winked and I waved and I waded away
To go chasing tornados in the panhandle plains
I've been mouthed in Manhattan
I've been lipped in LA
I've been fingered in Frisco
And I'm not even gay
I got high in the john
At the White House one day
Then I picked up a page
And I got my ass laid
No, I can't take away the mistakes that I've made
But it's been a sweet ride
Lost on the long way around to a tall stand of pines

Pardon me, handsome stranger
Do you happen to know the time?
I can't find a trace of 1988 or 89 (find, trace)
If you see the ghost of my daredevil youth go racing by
Flag him down and let him know
That I'll be running a good ways behind
And he can wait for me in the shade of a tall stand of pines
He can wait for me
In the shade of a tall stand of pines
A tall stand of pines (a tall stand of pines)
Tall stand of pines