Alex McMurray

if i laid my heart open—open like a book

could you see everything that it’s about

because it’s all in there somewhere if you care to look

even most of the things i left out

now i always rambled and i might’ve lost my way  

and i know i lost my money now and then

now i’m sorting through the shambles

of a hazy couple days

and i wonder if i’m going home again

because i want to know where the pale moon goes

when he lays his burden down

and i want to be where it’s wild and free

before the next moon comes around

these dreams in me

now i left home when i was seventeen

and i never knew who i was before

but my brother came and found me woke me from a dream

said the old man ain’t getting up no more

there was trouble all around me and hope was wearing thin

could even feel the rope around my neck

never fails to astound me the places that i’d been

when you finally pulled me stumbling from the wreck

because i want to know where the pale moon goes

when he lays his burden down

and i want to be where it’s wild and free

before the next moon comes around

these dreams in me

just want to be wild and free

these dreams in me

need not be yours, you see…

now we’re riding on a vapor trail caught behind a mule

since we threw our little luck together

we’re a tiger with a paper tail almost out of fuel

and it looks like we’re in for nasty weather

you can almost taste it but the road is getting rough

and it seems like there’s a breakdown every mile

but it’s getting time we faced it and i hope that that’s enough

to keep us going for another little while

because i want to know where the pale moon goes

when he lays his burden down

and i want to be where it’s wild and free

before the next moon comes around

these dreams in me