Driving through the darkness Hungover and carsick Broken-hearted boy Yeah that’s how it started With the dead Asking why you don’t confess Father Saint Francis Your daddy’s in a casket You hear it in the wind But you don’t want to ask yet You see it in her mouth You see it in her hands You know you got a secret that she’ll never understand And the ghosts Say what you already know
Yeah you had a place in the kingdom kid Yeah the pretty people are so easy to forgive But there’s something on your skin that you can’t get clean There’s a fawn in the fence that you can’t get free So you’re asking everybody who they think they really are And you feel a little better till the sky goes dark And the ghosts Yeah but you already know Yeah but you already know Yeah you got nowhere to go Yeah but you already know