Straw Man Lyrics

Quiet lonely day

On a miracle's highway and traveling takes its toll

The highway's windy road

Didn't open up her soul the way I thought it would

And I don't think that's good

Guess I thought it would have been the best she'd seen



The straw man's off the clock

She's waiting for his knock in her underwear

His foot falls on the stair

She greets him with a glare that says he'll have to fall

But with her back up against the wall

She suddenly recalls the straw man's just her dream



And it's never quite so clean

She makes the world around me seem

Lavender and wintergreen

When we're side by side



Now the straw man's been let loose

My dreams have been reduced by a quest for fame

Still the straw man feels no pain

She realized in shame and then the game is back

Then blue fades into black

Time takes back the slack she had when just seventeen

And it's never quite so clean

I make the world around her seem

Lavender and wintergreen

When we're side by side



Still a quiet lonely day

On a miracle's highway and I am almost home

Pick up the phone

Say that living life alone ain't how the story ends

Cause I am here to mend

But how much can she bend till on my side she'll lean



And it's never quite so clean

She makes the world around me seem

Lavender and wintergreen

When we're side by side