Damn Love Song

How can I carve your name in the trunk of a tree

That'll be here long after we're gone?

I can't even write it in the steam on the mirror

And with nobody listening, not even myself

It's as much as I can do

To whisper those words in your ear

After all of these years, look at me here

With a love song stuck in my throat

Got the weight of the world on my shoulders

I won't let it go

How can I dive right down in the deep blue sea

And still hope to find my way home?

When I stumble on my way to the shore

And when all of the airplanes, all of the cars

And all the miles in the world

Are sometimes not enough to quite reach your door

After all of these years, will you look at me here

With this love song stuck in my throat?

Got the weight of the world

And there's not too much else I can hold

And what if my chances run out someday

What if life's not my batting machine?

What if it stops throwing pitches before I hit one clean?

How can I lie beside you, night after night

And pick at the lock on your heart when I never once opened my own?

'Cause the last time it got free

It just cut and run like a stray out in the street

And it took just about all I had just to make it come home

After all these years, is the time drawing near

When a love song flies from my throat?

Can I lay down the weight of the world by the side of the road

Lay down the weight of the world and call myself home

Lay down the weight of the world?