I was high and dry like the Kansas sky   If I ached for any more I knew I'd surely die   Night after night, trying to get out of my skin   Day after lonely day, you'd send me back again      I have stood inside this prison   I have touched its stony walls   I know before you try to run   You gotta learn to crawl      I tried to leave it all behind me   I drove all night just to drive all day   But the walls of this prison still surround me   And I can't break away      I held you so close, I thought my soul would break   But you were just a ghost, the holiest mistake   I will not be a judge or the one to set you free   I'll just keep on drivin' and time's a friend to me      I have stood inside this prison   I have touched its stony walls   I know before you try to run   You gotta learn to crawl      I tried to leave it all behind me   I drove all night, I drove all day   But the walls of this prison still surround me   And I can't break away      The sentence has been read everything is done   I wish I could say goodbye to you, wish I could hold the sun   My eyes are dull and burnt and they lie to me sometimes   'Cause I thought I saw you cryin'      I have stood inside this prison   I have touched its stony walls   I know before you try to run   You gotta learn to crawl      I tried to leave it all behind me   In my dreams somehow I got away   But the walls of this prison still surround me   And I can't break away