Dust cloud coming off an old dirt road   That leads up here to this little graveyard   Seven lights in a perfect row   Under each light is a police car      Just because you say it doesn't make it true   You can say that I'm guilty man I just don't care   You can burn my body black   Just don't make me go back to Jackson Square      I met you on Decatur Street   With your little bare feet and your violin   I was walking by with my guitar in my hand   You smiled at me and I jumped right in      Before I knew it you were all I knew   Every moment together was an answered prayer   After a while we had some money saved up   And we rented a room over Jackson Square      Then one day everything changed   Your eyes got strange, you didn't seem yourself   You'd go to tell a story and you'd start out fine   Halfway through it you'd be somewhere else      And I started having the strangest dream   I held a string and looked up in the air   And you were glowing with the strangest light   Drifting out of sight over Jackson Square      Life is something that you can't control   When you try to hold onto it, it makes you let go   Things are not like they were before   I can hear her crying through the bathroom door      She says, she hears spirits all around the room   And they're telling her things that make her feel scared   I have no idea what to do   Before we're in over our heads in Jackson Square      I woke up with a weight on my chest   People were screaming on the street below   I reached for you, I was alone in the bed   Wind was blowing through an open window      Suddenly I was very old   In a little boat, absolutely nowhere   Staring at the side of the universe   And your tiny body down on Jackson Square      Now don't tell me that there ain't no end   There damn well is and it waits in the wings   I see you kneeling there at center stage   In your tiny cage made of angel wings      While I'm here every night   Loading my gun and trying not to go there   Anyone who says that life is clear   Has never seen a mirror or been to Jackson Square      Yeah, yeah, yeah