Got in my truck and I drove off I didn't say shit
Looking for words when they left me to stew over it
Every once in a while I just can't shrug it off
16 years sober will make you a shiny self cross
So I apologized when we did plug in the gear
All of this time I been wanting it's year upon year
How can a something be somewhere wherever it is
Can't it be nowhere and nothing and not of the biz
Sinking deep
Checking on back with our hero he's feeling his oats
Making his way as a young man with three leather coats
Has one for weddings and such and one to stay warm
His favorite is over his shoulders it shelters the storm
It's meloncholy and it's bright green and newer than new
Every once in a while I don't know what to do
Living vicariously 'cause that's a writer will do
Put it all in here and then some and do it for you
Sinking deep
Lost on North Avenue my job took me there everyday
A different world a new country I found out today
It's like I'm a foreigner born in the u s of a
Tension so thick you can cut it I'm here anyway
Driving on back to my home where the radio's free
Crank up the Velvets and Ice Cube and vintage PE
Pop in the Replacements and drift to a van on the road
Every once in a while I just want to explode
The magic of music's a cascading ballet of junk
Stuck in the middle of metal and country and funk
Sometimes I feel lost when I'm writing I want to be Neil
Every musician I know they just want to be real
Yeah
All of these labels for music mean jack shit to me
Subconsciously divide and conquer the will to be free
I don't want no purists around me it's forrest or trees
Give me a forrest and watch me sink into the leaves
Sinkin deep
Yeah, sinkin deep
Ah-oo lord
Ah-oo lord
sinkin deep
Yeah sinkin
Sinkin deep