Turn away from the pain you don't want Turnin' down to avoid them when they call Strange words I heard a long, long time ago I wish I could go back to a summertime I knew more than twenty years ago Lay between the sheets Lie underneath the maple tree Now I can't smile Lyin' down in the grass with the wind around us as we smile and talk Listen to your grandma sing those country songs She'd tell us how the maple turns to fire every four years We'd lay in the grass all summer just to watch the autumn come around I can't smile I can't smile Now I live alone And you're so far away Yeah, I call you every year Just around the holidays I still see you in the night Lyin' above me in the grass I can't smile Turn away from the pain you don't want Turnin' down to avoid them when they call I can't believe this letter that says you died I think I'm gonna go back the the house in North Carolina And lay in the back yard Get drunk and let the leaves just bury me, bury me I can't smile I can't smile I don't know what's happened to me I can't smile
Turn away from the pain you don't want Turnin' down to avoid them when they call Strange words I heard a long, long time ago I wish I could go back to a summertime I knew more than twenty years ago Lay between the sheets Lie underneath the maple tree Now I can't smile Lyin' down in the grass with the wind around us as we smile and talk Listen to your grandma sing those country songs She'd tell us how the maple turns to fire every four years We'd lay in the grass all summer just to watch the autumn come around I can't smile I can't smile Now I live alone And you're so far away Yeah, I call you every year Just around the holidays I still see you in the night Lyin' above me in the grass I can't smile Turn away from the pain you don't want Turnin' down to avoid them when they call I can't believe this letter that says you died I think I'm gonna go back the the house in North Carolina And lay in the back yard Get drunk and let the leaves just bury me, bury me I can't smile I can't smile I don't know what's happened to me I can't smile
