[Verse 1]
There's a local tavern comfort you evoke
There's a point to life nestled in your eyes
When you're laughin' at all my jokes

[Chorus]
Well I tried but I can't forget
Because the one thing that matters most
Is the shape you take in my dreams
Doesn’t fit my waking world

[Verse 2]
As I fled my birthplace village lookin' back
There's a chessboard set in the distance
That was made in the recent past

[Chorus]
Or was it just a cemetery?
Or a tombstone dealership?
I could not tell from the road
We were goin' pretty fast

[Verse 3]
Did the clatter I send you ever arrive?
Did you breathe it into your lungs and then
Blow a cloud as you said goodnight?

[Chorus]
When you swept down the last of it
Is it tidy in your room?
Do you feel the phantom limbo
As you bend beneath the broom?

[Verse 4]
There's a thousand words I've framed behind my eyes
When I close my lids
There's a childhood glimpse
As I leave the day behind

[Chorus]
And at night when my bones surrender
To the wind blown from the sea
And I'm sure that you're the sweetest breeze that's ever blown through me