Who was it who asked about the last mile being the hardest mile   Trying not to spend more time looking back   There's still a bit more to go   Can't stop measuring strike outs to home runs   Trying to justify these compromises that have piled up and dulled my blade   Maybe we stayed too long didn't say enough, swing hard enough   The years just sort of ran away   And the ones that follow won't be as fun   I'll never love anything else the way that I loved this   So you know its not gonna be easy   To just let go      But the credits they will roll      It's getting harder and harder   To give too much of my body and soul to a mess overrun by morons and thugs   Who's only purpose is to break this, not hard enough to make it   Fighting on their own   We stand bound and gagged as they pee on our rug   The end result of not a single motherfucker willing to take the hard road   Makes it easier to watch as the door swings slowly shut      Then there are those I'll carry with me forever, live deep in my chest   Watched as you took your last breath on that floor in Wilkes-Barre   The room loved you so deeply our hearts broke as you faded   And i can never repay the lesson you left me as we rolled outta town that night      Not a thought in my head of beginnings or endings   Make the most of these days while they are still unfolding   Keep right on dancing while that curtain is closing