Turning down to avoid them when they call.
Strange words I hear a long, long time ago.
I wish i could go back to a summer I knew more than twenty years ago.
Can't lay between the sheets.
We lie underneath the maple tree now.
I can't smile.
Lying in the grass with the wind around us as we smile and talk.
Listen to your gradma sing those country songs.
She'd tell us how the maple turns to fire every four years.
We'd sit in the grass all summer just to watch the autumn come around.
I can't smile.
Now I live alone and your so far away.
I call you once a year just around the holidays.
I still see you in the night lying above me in the grass.
I can't smile.
Turn away from the pain you don't want,
Turning down to avoid them when they call.
I can't beleive this letter that says you died.
I think I'm gonna go back to the house in North Carolina and lay in the backyard.
Get drunk, and let the leaves just bury me... bury me.
I can't smile.