Better and Better

There’s a letter she keeps inside

A list of everyone she knows

Behind her closed eyes

That turn her in when it’s time to go

She’s heading north into the haze

Raise the wire and they raise the rent

She’s walking the sun back home

And in the night the moon is gone

Is it better?

Is it better and better?

Is it better than staying home

With nowhere to go?

I’ve seen your face out on the plains

Drifting all alone

Draw my finger in the dirt

And down another blue road

She’s in Kansas and Alabam’

Idaho and the Carolinas

Know I’ve seen her before

Can’t you recognize those hands?

Is it better?

Is it better and better?

Is it better

Than staying back home?

Is it better?

Is it better and better?

Is it better

With nowhere else to go?