The Stops - Red Jacket Lyrics

Sitting counting cars on Route 17
This old guitar only knows what I mean
You can purchase live bait from the vending machine
Just another day with the family
Oh, the weather is calm and cold and grey
Surrounded by the mountains it's a typical day
Nothing to do, much less to say
Not much different than yesterday
Because you don't understand my motivation
I really can't be all by myself
Surrounded by the borders of states of mind
I see a part of the past that was left behind
Choices were made and beds were laid
Your life collects the interest till the prices are paid
And once upon a time I began to dream
But I never escaped from in-between
It's not as light and it's not as dark
There's Christmas lights in the trailer park
Because you don't understand my situation
I really can't be like anyone else
And it's such a hard and lonely way to go
And I'm so tired, my guitar
Rattles in my bones
I think it's time to say goodbye to the Red Jacket Motel
I think my welcome has been overstayed
Because I really can't go on feeling this way
The feeling in the room is cold and static
The nuclear bomb's gone radioactive
And then my little island gets blown away
Her soul's not really in her body today
And it's something about the way that the cells collide
To make ticks and traits that test all time
If you could change it then you probably would
But it'll only show up in your neighborhood
Because you don't understand my inspiration
There are no books up on the shelf
And it's such a hard and lonely way to go
And I'm so tired, my guitar
Rattles in my bones
I think it's time to say goodbye to the Red Jacket Motel
I think my welcome has been overstayed
Because I really can't go on feelin' this way