Who was it who asked about the last mile being the hardest mile
Trying not to spend more time looking back
There′s still a bit more to go
Can't stop measuring strike outs to home runs
Trying to justify these compromises
That have piled up and dulled my blade
Maybe we stayed too long didn′t say enough, swing hard enough
The years just sort of ran away
And the ones that follow won't be as fun
I'll never love anything else the way that I loved this
So you know its not gonna be so easy
It′s getting harder and harder
To give too much of my body and soul
To a mess overrun by morons and thugs
Who′s only purpose is to break this, not hard enough to make it
We stand bound and gagged as they pee on our rug
The end result of not a single motherfucker
Willing to take the hard road
Makes it that much easier to watch as the
Then there are those I'll carry with me forever, live deep in my chest
Watched as you took your last breath on that floor in Wilkes-Barre
The room loved you so deeply our hearts broke as you faded
And I can never repay the lesson you left me
As we rolled out of town that night