"I love riding through deserts. I feel I own time and control it, or it controls me ... Staring at people, my favorite pastime ... One day I will be back in time, I know it, or perhaps I have been back already. It must be so ... I feel I have met people I meet for the first time before -- something about the lines on their face or the hurt you can see in their eyes ... 95 degrees and deadly humid in a Memphis campground and thinking we'd be together for along while ... But souls in need of cold and heat are doomed to part I'm sure of it now, no matter what crazy promises you think you've made ... Things do fall apart and will forever, that's all I know."

I wish it was -- 8 years ago
And everyday -- didn’t feel so much
Like an explosion
Like an explosion

I wish it was -- eight years ago
Lying in my bed -- with you there below
Making noises in the motel room

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Driving thru the dessert,
Stopping off at all the beautiful places
Moving through Los Angeles
Staring at the beautiful faces
Faces

I wish that we -- were driving now
Stopping off to sleep -- in the trailer park
Outside of Memphis --‘side of Memphis

Chorus

I wish it was -- 8 years ago
And everyday -- didn’t feel so much
Like an explosion
Like an explosion

In another year -- she’ll make money there
And then tell me all about the 13 men she slept with
In the quiet, in the desert, in the wasteland

Chorus
I wish it was -- eight years ago
And we were still in love like just like it used to go
And you didn’t hate me – so much
You didn’t hate me – no you didn’t hate me – so much, you didn’t hate me
You didn’t hate me, hate me