When the Stalks Are Low Lyrics

Now on the way to work I drive past a field of wheat

And when the stalks are low sometimes I stop in the street

Because there's only one tree there and its branches are all bare

Something about its absent leaves

Says it's ok to be lonely

So if a lonely oak can move me to tears

Than your gentle voice should dispel all my fears

But, no matter what you say, they just don't go away

No word or phrase could lead me through

This maze of mirrors

Because I'm seeing the same thing in each new pane

Every time I change the reflection stays the same

And now, suddenly, there's too many of me

The only way out is up or down

I think I know the way

I said this would be the last time

Just like the first time it was the last time

I took a drive down Glen Arm

I said this would be the last time

Just like the first time it was the last time

I took a drive down Glen Arm

Now, on the way to work I drive past a homeless man

Same green shirt, shoes he found in a garbage can

He don't want your pity. He just wants your money

He found out a long time ago

You don't have to work to be a man

So I stay awake and I force myself to drive

And I stay happy now until the moment I arrive

Then they keep you at your desk. You're under arrest

Homeless man told me nothing else

Makes you feel less alive

After work I drive due north to Glen Arm

And I stare at that tree like a giant lucky charm

Then I bring the truck around and cut that fucker down

Now my commute can stay naïve

When I pass by this farm

I said this would be the last time

Just like the first time it was the last time

I took a drive down Glen Arm

I said this would be the last time

Just like the first time it was the last time

I took a drive down Glen Arm

I said this would be the last time

I swore it