North To Nothing

I took to faces shooting stills and places
I took nudes of our youngest boy
I took two years to take his name over
I beat ____ with ____'s toy

I'd sing your praises to the devil's face
But even fire couldn't dry you out
You wouldn't know a good shot if you drank one
Then throws up, throws punches, throws everybody out

Shut up and while we're on the subject
Of endless me and the what's I've done
I didn't raise my boy to be your snapshot toy
Not for you, not my son

And as he made his point, he opened up my eye

We're off and running (nothing)
North to Nothing, yeah (nothing)
I would not miss him (nothing)
A perfect ending, there (nothing)

Bet bottom dollar said as night day follows
Ain't a thought you can call your own
Just to vary someone's variation
To re-show what's been shown
(Ah)
A call to mothers and my fast ex-lover
Had the boys packing out by ten
We moved in with Earl and his own two girls
I took photographs of Spirograph, oh let's begin again
But then Earl kept having nightmares
About being tamed by dogs and fence
And when the agents came and asked for him by name
Well those dreams they made sense

Just when I'm used to him he has to go bye-bye

We're off and running (why pick on me?)
North to Nothing, yeah (why pick on me?)
I don't miss him (my little world)
A perfect ending, that (if it goes there too)

When dark came (they'll look and figure me out)
When dark came (they'll look and figure me out)
When dark came (they'll look and figure me out)
When dark came (well that's the way I feel)

Just when I'm used to him, he has to go bye-bye

And I wrote and I've called you for Wednesdays now
That's what the note tacked on to Earl's door said
And I half cried my way down the hall
I'll go South, I'll go South more ways than one
I'll probably need some cash to get started and so
I sold your pictures that won

Love, Ann

P.S. I understand your man friend has turned up missing
Missing, missing, missing (missing, yeah)

We're off and running (why pick on me?)
North to Nothing, yeah (why pick on me?)
I would not miss him (my little world)
A perfect ending, yeah (if it goes there too)

And then dark came (they'll look and figure me out)
And then dark came (they'll look and figure me out)
And then dark came (they'll look and figure me out)
And then dark came (well that's way I feel)

Nothing x4

Off and running, (nothing)
North to Nothing (nothing)
I don't miss him (nothing)
Perfect ending (nothing)

Nothing