fire maple song

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