All I've Ever Known

[Verse 1]

In a fifteen-passenger van to Ohio

The Chrysler invention hums and blows

Warm air through the vents sends it straight to the bone

Outside it's nine below

It's a pain I've never known

[Verse 2]

I lost my heart to the great Golden State

And the lanterns in Little Tokyo

If the fumes don't kill you first, then the dreaming surely will

You tell me on the phone

It's a pain you've never known

[Verse 3]

I look out the window and let my mind wander

From order to the open sky

And sometimes I swear I'll just never return

But it's all I've ever known

It's all I've ever known

[Chorus 1]

Will you take me as I am

In perfect obedience to all these demands?

I'm a child to the wonder but a victim of the change

When I see you again, will I know what to say?

[Verse 4]

I'm not immune to a piece of bad news

I just do what I must to move on

Give me truth but put me under so I don't feel a thing

It's the only way I know

It's the only way I know

[Verse 5]

I hear nothing, no rescue coming

Just church bells drawing out the dogs

I'm afraid that you were made by invention and odds are

I may never know

I may never know

[Chorus 2]

Will you take me as I came

In this resistance to the sound of my name?

I'm a daughter to the mystery but a servant to strain

When I see you again, will I know what to say?

Will I know what to say?

Will I know what to say?

[Outro]

You're all I've ever known

You're all I've ever known

You're the only thing that I know

And I'm afraid of what I don't, don't know

You're all I've ever known

You're all I've ever known