With Love, From A-Z

I was trying to swim through an ocean of rain

I was hoping to see California again

All these memories run through me like blood in my veins

In the quiet that covers the night like a blanket I dream

I see mountains that stretch from Manhattan to Mars

And I followed my comet down out of these stars

Once more crossing America west in my car

I am friendless, endlessly resentful, bereft, and I've been

Trying to be what you need

I may carve out this sentence on the white of my bones

And I could squeeze me a river right out of this stone

I may leave you a lot but I won't leave you alone

'Cause these words are the essence of me

I send 'em with love, from A to Z

Colorado collapses and Kansas secedes

From the dreaming of millions who want to believe

In the junk that they wished for but never received

All the gifts of a Christmas returning to sender unseen

I guess they aren't what you need

I may carve out this sentence on the white of my bones

I could squeeze me a river right out of this stone

And I may leave you a lot but I won't leave you alone

What you see is just pieces of me

But I send 'em with love, from A to Z

So we left for the coast and I wrote down this line

So I'll stay in your thoughts when I'm out of my mind

Curtis, blow me your trumpet

Chris, show me a sign

Full of hope for the fatherless children now fathering children unseen

If you come for the memories

I'll leave you this song

Sing it all your tomorrows, forever and ever and on

If the meaning escapes you, the melody will roll on

In the emberglow of one British cigarette

And the downpour that cannot extinguish it

I'd run headlong into the darkness

If that's what you need

Because you were everything I needed

I may carve out this sentence on the white of my bones

I could squeeze me a river right out of this stone

And I may leave you a lot

But I won't leave you alone