Hang My Heart on the Line

I woke up in the static

With a name I used to wear

The sun crawled up my window

Like it forgot I'm still here

I shaved with shaking fingers

Pulled on yesterday's blue jeans

Heard the coffee pot confessin'

Like it knows what silence means

So I hang my heart on the line

Like a flag in a losing war

Let the rhythm shake my bones

Like it's what the beat was for

I ain't fixed, I ain't fine

But I'm still drawin' the line

With a voice like thunder

And a soul full of wire

There's a note stuck to the mirror

From someone I used to be

It said "Get up, keep goin'

Don't let that mirror be me"

So I lace up my old reasons

Kick the gravel off my pride

Turn the dial past the sermon

And just let that groove collide

I hang my heart on the line

Like a lamp in a power cut

Let it flicker through the scars

Till the blood starts heatin' up

No choir, no sign

Just the blues keepin' time

And the sound of a man

Who still ain't had enough

I don't shine. I spark