in my ears and head

With your hand over your heart

and your Boy Scout face

you win a new merit badge

for a weakness for faith
for a love of strangers
for a love of danger

that most people don't feel

because they don't really feel.

They're like tables and chairs, they're like forks and knives

they're like planes and trains - hear 'em bump in the night

and their souls live all alone
they just wash up on the bank

and there their souls are beautiful
but finally start to stink.
Their souls aren't talking
and there are no choirs singing.
It's just the pull of the ocean
not even freedom is ringing.

It's just a river through Memphis

it's just a song by Led Zeppelin

You 'gotta whole lotta love'

They want the sound of heaven and that was all you could give them.

Yeah, that's all you could give them

for people wouldn't be caught dead

to be seen really living.

Grace is always forgotten but never forgiven

And I know all of this

because I'm just like them

I'm like some dirty old spy outside the Garden of Eden

They say that fear is a gift, well it kept me breathing

You thought I was busy?

Well I was just busy running

Running from your beauty

See some run from the devil

Some from their own history

Some run from their hopes and some run to the sea

Stupid, don't you agree?

Grace is always forgotten but it's never forgiven.

---------------------------Mark Eitzel (song's about Jeff Buckley)