Turn away from the pain you don't want

Turn it down to avoid them when they call

Strange words I heard

A long long time ago

I wish I could go back to a summertime

I knew more than twenty years ago

Lay between the sheets

We lie underneath the maple tree

Now I can't smile



Lying down in the grass with the wind around us

As we smile and talk

Listen to your grandma sing those country songs

She'd tell us how the maple turns to fire

Every four years

We'd lay in the grass all summer just to watch the autumn come around

I can't smile

Now I can't smile



Now I live alone and you're so far away

I call you every year just around the holiday

I still see you in the night lying above me in the grass

I can't smile



Turn away from the pain you don't want

Turning down to avoid them when they call

I can't believe this letter that says you died

I think I'm gonna go back to the house in North Carolina

Lay in the back yard

Get drunk and let the leaves just bury me

Bury me

I can't smile

Now I can't smile

I don't know what's happened to me

I don't know what's happened to me

I can't smile