Pack a change of clothes and a pillow for the road
for when you drift off to sleep
Put the sketches and the notes in the box labeled 'burn with furniture'
We will watch the fire burn the whole entire house we built
down to ashes
From the mirror we'll admire how the flame quickly retires
We won't waste a long goodbye on the smoke or foolish lies
that finally passed us
I was taught to keep an open-ended life
And never trap myself in nothing
Let's find something new to talk about
I'm tired of talkin' about myself
I spent my whole life talkin' to convince
everyone that I was something else
And the part that kinda hurts is I think it finally worked
and now I'm leaving
I get the feeling things have changed
But the mystery to me is where and when along the way
Did anyone decide that they believed me
I was taught to keep an open-ended life
And never trap myself in nothing
I was told to keep an open-ended life
To never trap yourself in nothing
When we settle down in another nowhere town
let's tell our neighbors
We won't be here long and we'll be quiet
but don't go askin' any favors
I can't stand the unexpected uninvited visits
from too many strangers
My trust has dwindled down
And I can leave just as abruptly as I came here
I was taught to keep an open-ended life
And never trap myself in nothing
I was taught to keep an open-ended life
To never trap yourself in nothing
I was taught to keep an open-ended life
And never trap myself in nothing
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16 In July 40 East A Fathers First Spring A Gift For Melody Anne A Lover Like You Ain't No Man All My Mistakes And It Spread Another Is Waiting Apart From Me At The Beach Backwards With Time Ballad False Start Bella Donna Bring Your Love To Me Colorshow Dancing Daze Denouncing November Blue Die Die Die Distraction #74 Divorce Separation Blues Down With the Shine Famous Flower of Manhattan February Seven Find My Love Fisher Road To Hollywood Four Thieves Gone Geraldine Gimmeakiss Go To Sleep Good To You Hand-Me-Down Tune Hard Worker Head Full Of Doubt Head Full Of Doubt, Road Full Of Promise I And Love And You I Killed Sally s Lover I Never Knew You I Wish I Was I Would Be Sad Ill With Want Incomplete And Insecure It Goes On And On January Wedding Kick Drum Heart Laundry Room Left on Laura, Left on Lisa Life Live and Die Living Of Love Matrimony May It Last Morning Song Murder in the City Never Been Alive No Hard Feelings Nothing Short of Thankful November Blue One Line Wonder Paranoia in B Major Paronia Paronia In B Major Paul Newman vsThe Demons Please Pardon Yourself Pretend Love Pretty Girl At The Airport Pretty Girl From Cedarlane Pretty Girl From Chile Pretty Girl from Feltre Pretty Girl from Matthews Pretty Girl From Michigan Pretty Girl From San Diego Rejects in the Attic Salina Salvation Song Sanguine Satan Pulls The Strings Shame Signs Sixteen in July Skin and Bones Smithsonian Souls Like the Wheels SSS St. Joseph's Swept Away Talk On Indolence Tear Down the House Ten Thousand Words The Ballad Of Love And Hate The Bloody Apology The Clearness Is Gone The Day That Marvin Gaye Died The Fall The Lowering The New Love Song The Perfect Space The Weight Of Lies Through My Prayers Tin Man True Sadness Vanity Victims Of Life When I Drink Will You Return? Winter in My Heart Yardsale You Are Mine
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