Round Here (Live on SNL)

[Verse 1]

Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog

Where no one notices the contrast of white on white

In between the moon and you, the angels get a better view

Of the crumbling difference between wrong and right

Well, I walk in the air between the rain

Through myself and back again

Where? I don't know

But Maria says she’s dying

Through the door, I hear her crying

Why? I don't know

[Chorus for Verse 1]

Round here, we always stand up straight

Round here, something radiates

[Verse 2]

Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand

She said she'd like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis

And she walks along the edge of where the ocean meets the land

Just like she’s walking on a wire in the circus

She parks her car outside of my house and takes her clothes off

Says she's close to understanding Jesus

And she knows she's more than just a little misunderstood

She has trouble acting normal when she's nervous

[Chorus for Verse 2]

Round here, we're carving out our names

Round here, all, we all look the same

Round here, we talk just like lions but we sacrifice like lambs

Round here, she's slipping though my hands

He-hey!

[Verse 3]

Sleeping children better run like the wind

Out of the lightning dream

Mama's little baby better get herself in

Out of the lightning

She says, "It's only in m-m-m-m-m-my head"

She says, "Shh, I know, I know it’s only, it’s only in my head"

But the girl on the car in the parking lot

Says, "Man, you should try to take a shot

Can't you see my walls are crumbling?"

Then she looks up at the building

And says she’s thinking of jumping

She says she's tired of life

She must be tired of something

[Chorus for Verse 3]

Round here, she's always on my mind

Round here, hey man, I got lots of time

Round here, we're never sent to bed early

Man, nobody makes us wait

Round here we, round here we stay, round here we stay up, round here we stay up very, very late

I, I, I, I can’t see nothing, nothing round here

Will you catch me if I'm falling, catch me if I'm falling

Catch me 'cause I'm falling down on you

[Outro]

I said I'm under the gun round, around here  here

Man, I said I'm under the gun round here

And I can't see nothing, nothing round here