fire maple song

Lyrics

turn away from the pain you don't want, turnin' 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, lie underneath the maple tree, now i can't smile, lyin' 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 live alone, and you're so far away, yeah, i call you every year, just around the holidays, i still see you in the night, lyin' above me in the grass, i can't smile, turn away from the pain you don't want, turnin' down to avoid them when they call, i can't believe this letter that says you died, i think i'm gonna go back the the house in north carolina, and lay in the back yard, get drunk and let the leaves just bury me, bury me, i can't smile, i don't know what's happened to me, i can't smile