Once she lay open like a road   Carved apart the madness that I stumbled from   But she fell away   She fell away   Shed me like a skin   She fell away   Left me holding everything       Seems impossible to me now   Seems impossible to me now   Seems impossible to me now      Once the road lay open like a girl   And we drank and laughed   And threw the bottle over   But she fell away   She fell away   I did not see the cracks form   As I knelt to pray   I did not see the crevice yawn, no      Sometimes at night, I feel the end, it is at hand   My pistol going crazy in my hand   For she fell away   Oh, she fell away   Walked me to the brink   Then fell away   I did not see her fall   To better days   Sometimes I wonder was she ever there at all   She fell away   She fell away   She fell away