Up My Sleeve

[Verse 1]
Set another place at the table, 'cause I must be dreaming
Sitting by the side of the window, your shadow is gleaming
I'm rubbing on my eyes but you don't seem to go away
I can almost half believe that you mean to stay

[Verse 2]
Talking with Freight Car Betty about the state of the nation
She told me everything she knew without hesitation
Mysterious ways are the order of the day, we all know it
There's a heart up every sleeve but who has time to show it?

[Chorus]
Hangin' round on the ground, smilin' up my sleeve
To make a dream get real, gotta choose what to believe
Everything comes around if you know how to wait
Resign yourself to wander hand in hand with fate

[Verse 3]
A stranger from Twentynine Palms dims the light of the moon
Caresses his sad guitar and plays a highway tune
Lilies of the mornin' wake up in the midnight baffled
Yearning or that lonesome road, some hobo travel

[Verse 4]
Wander through the catacombs, looking for a heart to believe in
Don't seem to find it, so I reckon that it's not the season
Wander through lost till I find a place to take my ease in
Where a handful of dark flowers bloom for their own good reason

[Verse 5]
Wisdom is a way of looking at the bright side of sadness
The prospect of joy in-between interludes of madness
We all know meaning is essentially a relative thing
But what you can't exactly say, you can sometimes sing

[Chorus]
Hangin' round on the ground, smilin' up my sleeve
To make a dream get real, gotta choose what to believe
Everything comes around if you know how to wait
Resign yourself to wander hand in hand with fate

[Verse 6]
In convincing myself I live the only life I could
Blew it bad a time or two, and that's understood
So I commend my soul to grace and accept defeat
As things that matter each vanish down a one way street

[Verse 7]
But here by the window I can see your shadow gleamin'
For in at the curtain the morning sun comes streamin'
I feel a beat in a place that seemed cold as stone
So I guess my heart still has a life of its own

[Chorus]
Hangin' round on the ground, smilin' up my sleeve
To make a dream get real, gotta choose what to believe
Everything comes around if you know how to wait
Resign yourself to wander hand in hand with fate

[Chorus]
Hangin' round on the ground, smilin' up my sleeve
To make a dream get real, gotta choose what to believe
Everything comes around if you know how to wait
Resign yourself to wander hand in hand with fatee

[Outro]
Set another place at the table, 'cause I must be dreaming