Quiet lonely day   On a miracle’s highway and traveling takes its toll   The highway's windy road   Didn't open up her soul the way I thought it would   And I don't think that's good   Guess I thought it would have been the best she'd seen      The straw man's off the clock   She's waiting for his knock in her underwear   His foot falls on the stair   She greets him with a glare that says he'll have to fall   But with her back up against the wall   She suddenly recalls the straw man's just her dream      And it's never quite so clean   She makes the world around me seem   Lavender and wintergreen   When we're side by side      Now the straw man's been let loose   My dreams have been reduced by a quest for fame   Still the straw man feels no pain   She realized in shame and then the game is back   Then blue fades into black   Time takes back the slack she had when just seventeen      And it's never quite so clean   I make the world around her seem   Lavender and wintergreen   When we're side by side      Still a quiet lonely day   On a miracle’s highway and I am almost home   Pick up the phone   Say that living life alone ain't how the story ends   Cause I am here to mend   But how much can she bend till on my side she'll lean      And it's never quite so clean   She makes the world around me seem   Lavender and wintergreen   When we're side by side