Black crows flying in your wheat field 
Babies cryin', all you got's a paper shield 
It don't make much sense to you 
Who said it had to? 

Most folks smile away the blues 
I mean I, I guess they do 
You never really know for sure 
But I'm surviving on this hunch that everybody else is hurtin' too 

He was crazy 
Crazy but able 
So he excused himself from cleaning up the stable 
This is the way that horses die 
This is the way you learn to lie- 
By sacrificing the real and forgetting how to feal 

I loved him like fire 
We both had similar burning desires 
He kept expecting it all to work out down here 
I just hang on to holy fear 

Now I know how far out I'm getting here 
But it's a dark night walk- the life of fear 
And I'm trying to choose the words 
That'll chase away the birds 
Good God, just hurry up and come down here