I had my mind made up about how this all would go
I would sit beneath the willow tree and watch the willow blow.
Fashion a mansion out of playing cards and build the queen of hearts a throne.
Kick pebbles across the railroad tracks and call the next stop home.
I would call the next stop home.
And I was scared to death of love but I could not stand a chance,
No I was sick of sitting still but I couldn't stand to dance
And all the dance was just a prize fight that I couldn't win to lose
And the winning never thrilled me like the fighting seemed to do
All the fighting seemed to do.
And I can lay low
I can lay low
I can low for a while
And I had my mind made up as you knew before this storm rolled through
It blew away my makeshift home and what I knew to be true
I no longer had the things I had the things I once held close
I no longer had the things that I used to call my own
Well I used to call em' my own
And when I was scared to death of love
I was a broke down beat up truck
And I remember when my wheels came off
All my wheels they had enough
My wheels they had enough from a fight that I was born to lose
And I went all twelve rounds till I found you
And then I found you
And I can lay low
I can lay low
I can lay low for a while
And if I knew what I know now when my mind was made up then
Well I might have done oh I might have done just exactly what I did
I might have let you go unbeknownst to my limbs and my own head
Or I might have known, you were my skin and bones
And that's what scared me to death
Ya that's what scared me to death
See I was a sucker for the romance, a sucker and a fool
A fool for thinking that this old dance wasn't made for two
But this dance was just a prize fight that I was born to lose
And I went all twelve rounds until I found you
And then I found you
And I can lay low
I can lay low
I can lay low for a while
Well I can lay low
Until I get high
And then I get high
I get high