The Back 40

Pearl Jam songs and Beatnik books

Cigarettes and stomach pumps

Pills scattered across the floor

A picture above the dresser door

Trying hard to give up fast

Hoping hard that I wouldn't last

Speeding down a one way track

With Pearl Jam and Kerouac 

Minor chords and Mary Jane

Glenlivet and killing pain

Razors stabbing in the wrist

Teardrops on virgin lips

Begging Mama to let me go

Mama wouldn't do that though

Screaming loud into the sky

With minor chords and bloodshot eyes

I made it through the darkness

I made it through the brush

Fought all those monsters

I swore I'd never touch

And now here before me

I never dreamt I'd see

My toes in the green grass

Of the back 40

You never know how far you'll go

When you're crawling down a gravel road

Blood keeps flowing like tick of time

And suddenly you find

You made it through the darkness

You made it through the brush

Fought all those monsters 

You swore you'd never touch

And then there before you

You never dreamt you'd see

Your toes in the green grass

Of the back 40