John Hiatt - Only The Song Survives Lyrics
I woke her up twice in the middle of the nightTo ask what her name is and where she might liveTo ask how many fingers she saw in this lightTo ask if she might know what givesShe said we rolled that camaro like a cowboy cigaretteOut on the highway in a puddle of beerThats just about how close to death youre gonna getTill the only thing standing is fearChorus:Singing, oh darling, faces were changedThe names of the innocent, the story at fiveOh darling, faces get strangeBut only the song survivesShe said, now dont you remember they put a patch on your eyeLike dread pirate roberts, you looked so unplannedThey cut off my wedding ring and you started to cryA one-eyed niagara falls manChorusI said, but I never married - I said with surpriseAnd is this the diamond you said that you lostIt was under my eyelids when they flushed out my eyesHell and I dont know what the thing costChorus twiceBut I woke up sweating to breakfast in bedAnd there were my children, and there was my wifePost-traumatic stress, of just a bump on the headOr maybe the ride of my lifeChorus twice
