Used to walk down The Drive
Heads purple and brown and blue
And we were so content
With the experience of life, yeah
We were so extreme
With streamers and sex in strange places
And never embarrassed - at all

Now I'm bouncing off the walls in this room
I'm sitting alone with all this stuff I shared with you

Hate to tell you
But these thoughts keep running over me
Like I'm a downtown street
I'm telling you true, true
Seems like this dream
This dream is just a waste of time, yeah
And I'm asking myself

Why why why, I said oh why why why?
Does it have to take so much pain
To figure out some things?
Been banging my head on the concrete
One too many times
I'm taking my stuff away from you
I'm taking my stuff away from you
And you were so intense
Like a Dylan in his early songs
Or a Dylan Thomas
I'm telling you true, true
Don't go gentle into that good night
You were in love with desperation
And it changed the world
Like some kind of mad archangel

Now I'm bouncing off the walls in this room
I'm sitting alone with all this stuff I shared with you

Hate to tell you
But this church of life brings a new reality into view
I'm telling you true, true
And it's changing the world
Well I think that it's changing us instead

Why why why?

It's like the worst things happen to me it seems
Must have some kind of reason or synchronicity

Hey, guess what?
You're turning my garden blue and all the flowers in it
I'm telling you true, true
But it's just a reflection of how
You're just a lesson to me now
Just a lesson to me now