Rocking Chair

I was sittin' in the rocking chair by the side of the house
Where the streetlight stars and all the highway cars
Claps on the drapes on your window
I'll get something to eat, but all the spaces I meet
Seem so hypnotizing
These eyes are exits to be

Oh, and things ain't what they used to be
Got this flickering heart set out after me
If my mind was a poem, well, I burned it up long before
If I drink some more, well, I think I might drown
Slip into silence as my heart it burns out
Find the devil inside me and I nail him back down
Whoa

If the day would ever come around, shiver at the sight
Finally lookin' out through these little pane eyes
Our stringed clothes, put me aside
I'll slowly die for my sins, swallow my sins whole
His eyes, they were bigger than his belly ever was (Ooh)

Oh, and things ain't what they used to be
Got this flickering heart set out after me
If my mind was a poem, well, I burned it up long before
If I drink some more, well, I think I might drown
Slip into silence as my heart it burns out
Find the devil inside me and I nail him back down
Whoa