Damn Love Song

<br>How can I carve your name in the trunk of a tree that`ll be here long after we`re gone?<br>I can`t even write it in the steam on the mirror.<br>And with nobody listening, not even myself, it`s as much as I can do<br>To whisper those words in your ear.<br><br>After all of these years, look at me here<br>With a love song stuck in my throat.<br>Got the weight of the world on my shoulders, <br>I won`t let it go.<br><br>How can I dive right down in the deep blue sea and still hope to find my way home?<br>When I stumble on my way to the shore, <br>And when all of the airplanes, all of the cars, and all the miles in the world<br>Are sometimes not enough to quite reach your door.<br><br>After all of these years, will you look at me here<br>With this love song stuck in my throat.<br>Got the weight of the world and there`s not too much else I can hold.<br><br>And what if my chances run out someday, <br>What if life`s not my batting machine?<br>What if it stops throwing pitches before I hit one clean?<br><br>How can I lie beside you night after night and pick at the lock on your heart?<br>When I never once opened my own.<br>Cause the last time it got free, it just cut &amp; run like a stray out in the street<br>And it took just about all I had just to make it come home.<br><br>After all these years, is the time drawing near<br>When a love song flies from my throat?<br>Can I lay down the weight of the world by the side of the road,<br>Lay down the weight of the world and call myself home,<br>Lay down the weight of the world?