(Gretchen Peters) On a bus to St. Cloud, Minnesota I thought I saw you there With the snow falling down Around like a silent prayer. And once on a street in New York City With the jazz and the sin in the air And once on a cold LA freeway Going nowhere. And it's strange but it's true I was sure it was you Just a face in the crowd On a bus to St. Cloud. In a church in downtown New Orleans I got down on my knees and prayed And I wept in the arms of Jesus For the choice you made. We were just gettin' to the good part Just gettin' past the mystery Oh, and it's just like you It's just like you to disagree. And it's strange but it's true You just slipped out of view Like a face in the crowd On a bus to St. Cloud. And you chase me like a shadow And you haunt me like a ghost And I hate you some and I love you some But I miss you most. --- Instrumental --- On a bus to St. Cloud, Minnesota I thought I saw you there With the snow falling down Around like a silent prayer...

I take flight on borrowed time I was once terrified of heights I say a prayer, I look down and I'm ready to die If you cross over tonight You see beyond the darkest sky You taste the blood as something wild and alive You might light up in a flash You won't hold onto a flame It's a squalid way to live but it's the rules of the game It ain't your fault It's just a shame To fall without aim I walk down east seventh street A wistful, wild depravity Iconoclastic, black and white, dusty and sweet I tell this story every time Real love don't follow a straight line It breaks your neck, it builds you a delicate shrine You might mourn all that you wasted That's just part of the haul Tangling up all your good fortune, bearing the heart of the fall You won't break it after all Look at us, man and bride And a grinding sound Faithful to a life underground And when the picture fades the years will make us calm I'll sing a song at your funeral Laid in the Mississippi gulf Or back home at Waxahatchee creek You know you got a friend in me I'm an angler married to the sea

Mississippi, I'm alone in the alley What am I supposed to be fighting for? If you build yourself up tall You can tell me what the future holds Will you settle where you stand or keep it to yourself? Will you go? Will you go? Will you go? Will you go? Will you go? Will you go? Will you go? Will you go? Will you go? Will you go? Will you go? Will you go?

I stare at myself The whole world keeps turnin' I went out in the storm Thought I felt the house burnin' The kiss on my lips Starts to feel unfamiliar A part of me rots My skin all turns silver You tell a classic story Smothered underneath formality I'll portray the old shag carpet You can walk all over me If I turn to stone The whole world keeps turnin' I went out in the storm And I'm never returnin'

You got your mind set on it Losing me over the head on it You splatter your logic like I came here to see the first day of your life The speed of light fixates on you Moving through time, a failing pursuit Give off a spark, you light up the room You got your heart broken Now You unfold it when you're falling down You tell me she was boring you She keep ticking behind glass walls, good as new The speed of light's over your head Moving through night, faces you'll forget You ask a lot, she said go ahead He said go ahead I say go ahead

Swallow my pride, it's mine to quell I'll put you through hell I'll put you through hell I release a ramble of a sigh You illuminate me as I galvanize a flowery demise I well, I was never gonna survive He's a fire burning fast and so so bright Taking back the night It's a classic plight Through vacillating eyes He wants to have it all and who am I? And I hover above like a deity But you don't worship me You don't worship me Yeah you struck the illusion, you did it well I'll put you through hell I'll put you through hell I nurture the one track taking flight Let it surround me like a starry night Let it hypnotize, puncturing the minds Of those who canonize A love that is so true it never dies And I hover above like a deity But you don't worship me You don't worship me Yeah you struck the illusion, you did it well I'll put you through hell I'll put you through hell I'll put you through hell I'll put you through hell