Performed 9-20-03... This is a song about a good friend, troubled soul, who decided he'd had enough with this world...

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It's about the loss of a good friend who had enough with this world, and went on to the next...

I pissed in the wind
when I should have been sailing
Ran roughshod and ragged
Panhandling time
I've lost more direction
Than any one map could hold
I'd follow my heart
but I know love is blind.

Poised on the edge
With an urge to move forward
Behind me the ruins
of bridges I've burned.
I'm here at the end
of this road I've been stranded on.
From where it began
I shall never return.

And I am not looking for
anymore answers
There's so many things
I'd rather not know.
I am just pushing my way
through the wilderness
trying to cover
my tracks in the snow.

The company of strangers
Was sometimes much warmer
than all the cold shoulders
To which I's exposed
Whenever I passed this way
I was a cast away
In a room full of thorns
With but one wilted rose

And so I shall go
Where no one will find me
and I'll pay no respect
to what's left behind.
No begging your pardon
For my heart has hardened
from all of this emptiness
fillin' my mind.

High on this hilltop
I call to my anger
Don't you leave me now
When you brought me this far
And I will obey you
won't try to dissuade you
from pushing me on
to my place in the stars.

(jam)

I am not looking for any more answers
Don't you look for any
in what I have done
But always remember
I never surrendered
It's just that these things
That I've battled
Have won...