I'll Be Gone - Smoke or Fire

This town is dead, this world is rotten

I’ve seen this country’s fifty states and I’ve forgotten

Every name and every place, I drank my way through every hour

Of every day I’ve spent away from home

And it doesn’t mean shit to me

'Cause I didn’t see it with you

No, it doesn’t mean shit to me

Alone

This brain is dead, this body’s rotting

I came, I saw, I never conquered anything

I’ve spent my life in vans on tours in rich men’s homes, on poor men’s floors

I’ve sold my soul to find a shred of hope

And it doesn’t mean shit to me

'Cause I didn’t find it with you

No, it doesn’t mean shit to me

Alone

Someday I’ll be gone and all this forgotten

With these cold and lonely words

Someday I’ll be dead and this all for nothing

She’ll live the way she should

But when you see her, remind her I tried

And tell her see you to remember I’ve tried