I woke her up twice in the middle of the night   To ask what her name is and where she might live   To ask how many fingers she saw in this light   To ask if she might know what gives      She said we rolled that camaro like a cowboy cigarette   Out on the highway in a puddle of beer   That's just about how close to death you're gonna get   Till the only thing standing is fear      Chorus:   Singing, oh darling, faces were changed   The names of the innocent, the story at five   Oh darling, faces get strange   But only the song survives      She said, now don't you remember they put a patch on your eye   Like dread pirate roberts, you looked so unplanned   They cut off my wedding ring and you started to cry   A one-eyed niagara falls man      Chorus      I said, but I never married - I said with surprise   And is this the diamond you said that you lost   It was under my eyelids when they flushed out my eyes   Hell and I don't know what the thing cost      Chorus twice      But I woke up sweating to breakfast in bed   And there were my children, and there was my wife   Post-traumatic stress, of just a bump on the head   Or maybe the ride of my life      Chorus twice