Turn away from the pain you don't want   Turnin' down to avoid them when they call   Strange words I heard a long, long time ago   I wish I could go back to a summertime   I knew more than twenty years ago   Lay between the sheets   Lie underneath the maple tree   Now I can't smile   Lyin' down in the grass with the wind around us as we smile and talk   Listen to your grandma sing those country songs   She'd tell us how the maple turns to fire every four years   We'd lay in the grass all summer just to watch the autumn come around   I can't smile   Now I live alone   And you're so far away   Yeah, I call you every year   Just around the holidays   I still see you in the night   Lyin' above me in the grass   I can't smile   Turn away from the pain you don't want   Turnin' down to avoid them when they call   I can't believe this letter that says you died   I think I'm gonna go back the the house in North Carolina   And lay in the back yard   Get drunk and let the leaves just bury me, bury me   I can't smile   I don't know what's happened to me   I can't smile