"I'm sorry that I left you   With your questions all alone   But I was too happy driving   And too angry to drive home   I was thinking about the easy courage   Of my distant friends   They said I could let this bridge wash out   And never make amends      Can I blow this small town   Make a big sound   Like the star of a film noir postcard   Can I just forget the frames I shared with you      And I can't believe what they're saying   They're saying I can change my mind   Start over on Spring Street   I'm welcome anytime      Well there are Spring Street storefront daisies   Floating on their neon stems   There are new shirts on the clothes racks   Should I feel like one of them   I can find a small apartment   Where a struggling artist died   And pretend because I pay the rent   I know that pain inside      Yeah, let's watch the tour bus stop and tell us   Here's the scene of a spring green life dream   Take the best part   Write it in your caffeine diary      And I can't believe what they're saying   They're saying I can leave tonight   Start over on Spring Street   I'm welcome anytime      This year April had a blizzard   Just to show she did not care   And the new dead leaves   They made the trees look like children with gray hair   But I'll push myself up through the dirt   And shake my petals free   I'm resolved to being born   And so resigned to bravery      Yeah the one who leaves this also grieves this   Too much rain on a prairie flood plain   Houses floating, love is like that   We built on the river      And that's to say, yeah I'm leaving   But I don't have to go there   I don't have to go to Spring Street   'Cause it's spring everywhere... "