meet me out past the cottonwoods where we ran as kids straight out past the cemetery where the river turns to ditch this car i m driving can t drive me fast enough thirty miles of potholed roads got me shaking like a drunk straight back far away a long ways from here just south of nowhere static on the radio gave out five miles back and i m singing some old marshalls song just for laughs my head aches from cigarettes my eyes are edged with sleep meet out past the muddy ditch beneath the palos verdes trees straight back far away a long ways from here just south of nowhere monday morning takes me back to where i have to be full of half assed promises this shit just ain t for me meet me out past the cottonwoods where we ran as kids straight out past the cemetery where the river turns to ditch straight back far away a long ways from here just south of nowhere 