early in the mornin' I walk into the sun
turn back to it when the day is done
and somewhere in between I look at what my eyes have seen
I try to run but I cannot run

'cause there ain't no place to run if there ain't no place to hide
if there ain't no truth and ain't no sides
they say it's life to live for somethin' and death to live for nothin'
and all the rules I must abide

oh my eyes can never blink if my mind can never sleep
the words are there but talk is cheap
oh by now I know they're lyin' so I oughta just not try 'em
but no matter what it cuts so very deep

no but you would never know it from your eyes have seen
to show too much just ain't my scene
oh but babe the why and how is what I'm tellin' you right now
you blew it all to smithereens

no home no more
now I roam in a war
no home no more
but I just can't make you
just can't make you walk back through that door

all the dead leaves
they fall down out the nowhere sky
all the dead leaves yellow and brown
they fall down down out the nowhere sky
the wind blows 'em round up off the ground
but that way you can't fly, no not til you die

you can pick 'em back up
but you just cannot put them back and make them green
you can pick 'em back up honey
but you just can't put them back and make them green
so it will be, and so you must see
all the dead leaves, the smithereens

oh, I got a lotta time to kill
oh, I'll go out lookin' for some cheaper thrills
ooh, just sick of everything standing so still

there's nothin' like a cloudy day
inside your mind to make you stay
ooh, but for the winds of May

oh well it comes and goes
nobody sees, so nobody knows
nobody sees because nobody shows

oh but I think it's here for good
seein' things like I never could
all this time and I never understood...

well the burnin' pain of love don't mean to much to me
the nighttime is a dirty dream
well it never seems to find me so there's nothin' to remind me
of the way it all used to seem

oh but to live among the ashes just ain't my kind of trip
so I get back up shoot from the hip
and if you look into my eyes you will find the tired lies
that no more will leave my lips

you just go with what you know and react to what you've seen
experience is cruel and mean
but you learn to move along whether you were right or wrong
when your world is all in smithereens