High Highs and Low Lows

The one making a decision always ends up second-guessed
By a person less decisive who believes that they know best
I wouldn't change a thing, I would make the call again
Shame on you, you could have been a friend
Now, it’s hard to hear the measure that was with me all the time
Like it was in the beginning but the past is hard to find
Do you think we'll ever feel the way we felt when we began?
Do you think we'll ever feel that way again?

High highs and low lows
Only one way that the river flows
Was it comedy or tragedy?
Both, I would suppose
High highs and low lows

Or that time in Arizona when we laughed until we cried
All the sleepers in the van, they one by one, turned on the lights
And I never hear the Beach Boys without thinking about that song
What a miracle to feel like you belong

Those were high highs and low lows
Only one way that the river flows
Was it comedy or tragedy?
Where did the good times go?
High highs and low lows
To those high highs and low lows

Now, when I received your letter, I hung my head and cried
I looked right into the mirror and the mirror doesn’t lie
Wrote 20 songs in Nashville, I wrote 20 in L.A
20 for those brothers that I lost along the way
But for every song I wrote, through every single note
I knew I was writing songs just to give myself some hope
And I've scattered tiny rocks all across an asphalt road
For some reason I just needed you to know

About these high highs and low lows
There's only one way that the river flows
Was it comedy or tragedy?
Where does the money go?
High highs and low lows
To those high highs and low lows

If what you said about me, if I believed that it were true
I'd throw myself upon the mercy of the ocean blue
But most of your critique, it doesn't sound that much like me
Though I wonder if it sounds a bit like you

Oh, those high highs and low lows
Only one way that the river flows
Was it comedy or tragedy?
Who really knows?
High highs and low lows
I've had high highs and low lows
To those high highs and low lows