The smell of whiskey on mother's breath

When she told me and brother daddy left

Pressed between the pages in my mind

The more I find, the more I look

Slammin' doors are an open book

And puts me on a plane that I can't fly

I can rearrange but that don't change

The way it feels inside.

They say nothing lasts forever

I beg to differ, I know better

The good book preaches life through eternity

I can cover up this old tattoo

And paint it down with something new

But I can't hide the things that you can't see

Yeah, this old world has left its mark on me.

The taste of lonely at 2 a.m.

In the only place that I fit in

Pressed between a stranger and a pill

Somewhere just below top shelf

History repeats itself

And just above the well I know I will

I know I'll ease the pain but that won't change

Things that just don't die.

They say nothing lasts forever

I beg to differ, I know better

The good book preaches life through eternity

I can cover up this old tattoo

And paint it down with something new

But I can't hide the things that you can't see

Yeah, this old world has left its mark on me.

Branded by the hand life dealt

Stranded in a self-made hell

I'm not sick but I'm not well.

They say nothing lasts forever

I beg to differ, I know better

The good book preaches life through eternity

I can cover up this old tattoo

And paint it down with something new

But I can't hide the things that lie beneath

I can't hide the things that you can't see

Yeah, this old world has left its mark on me.