You get under my skin like a splinter You know your fingertips could ruin me You make me shiver like the dead of winter You push me up from the bottom of the sea And now I'm shriveled up inside my sins What once was new is now worn in I'm traveling down this road alone My only friend's a skipping stone My only friend's a skipping stone Take this burden from my mind Replace it with a jar of wine Wrap it up in sheets of white And toss it far into the night Into the night Virginia's never been so cold The air is biting at my tongue The birds have put away their song The mountains never seemed so small The mountains never seemed so small Take this burden from my mind Replace it with a jar of wine Wrap it up in sheets of white And toss it far into the night Into the night I'm swinging, swinging through the days There are pictures passing by my gaze I'm breathing, breathing audibly But I don't hear a sound coming from me I don't hear a sound coming from me Take this burden from my mind Replace it with a jar of wine Wrap it up in sheets of white And toss it far into the night Into the night