Line In The Dust

I'm walking outside and I see you arrive

I say, "Let's go for a ride, and have a good old time"

Whoa, I'm saving up lies, or just stay quiet every time

While you talk in your line, keep everything fine, whoa fine

Between us, I can see, things are not what they used to be

My old friend changed, or maybe it was me

Things get so complicated, jokes made, friendships dissipated

Long silence but I speak now so belated

I say, "Hey, wait a minute, what's that you said?

Not so sure that I heard you right"

Whoa, "Hey, wait a minute, oh say that again

You're in the dust drawing a long straight line"

We'd be playing outside, we'd swing on the swings

Shared most everything, sit there and even sing

Now I sit and wonder, why it's a friendship charade

Looking for fights all day, I don't want to play

Whoa, but I do, here we go, you fire off another lame remark

You're in the dark

No bite, just your bark but it leaves a painful mark

Oh, painful mark on your soul, takes its toll, might as well fold

I've got my courage up, gonna roll, roll

I say, "Hey, wait a minute, what's that you said?

Not so sure that I heard you right"

Whoa, "Hey, wait a minute, oh say that again

You're in the dust drawing a long straight line"

We talk and talk but you never see, unreconstructed defiantly

My old friend changed but maybe it was me

Things get so complicated, jokes made, friendships dissipated

I've stayed quiet so we don't get alienated

Well I say, "Hey, wait a minute, what's that you said?

Not so sure that I heard you right"

Whoa, "Hey, wait a minute, oh say that again

You're in the dust drawing a long straight line"

Wait, wait a minute

Oh say that again

Watch yourself drawing a line in the dust

Wait, wait a minute

Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute

Wait, wait, wait, wait

I'm saving up lies, or just stay quiet every time

While you talk in your line, keep everything fine, whoa fine, yeah

I can see, things are not what they used to be