Simon Joyner - Ballad In The Past lyrics

I want to leave this forsaken place Where the wind doesn't reach the lines in my face And the air cannot breathe any dust out of me Ears burn when you speak and good hearts bleed In need In need of being freed How long has it been since you touched and made me? How near it was then when we were still them? That blue moon about broke her neck jealously Just to watch the two new kids swim Carefully We must clean the dust from these things carefully And the ground where we lay it was softer in those days And the words on our tongues were not bitter but young So I ate from between your fingers and prayed You would not soon forget me when I was gone Don't leave me I'll bury my memories if you leave Now the hour it turns and begins to fold While the thieves they scatter and hide their gold They shake their sand to cover their tracks And burn all of their old and yellowed maps History Everything that was mine is lost behind in history In the darkness I've stumbled and fallen down troubled And when I put my two palms together I didn't feel any better I wish I was good at knocking on wood But I know I will never be saved or healed How does it feel To be a shell in a crowd without a cloud? But were there a bridge I could cross to all the distance I've lost I wouldn't need these canned words or this caged melody I would simply return to where a good heart burns And the wind bends the trees scattering leaves In need In need of being freed