The General Specific

[Verse 1] If the trials at hand Are really getting you down We had a close call I didn't even see it Then another one I hardly believed it at all What the writers say It means shit to me now Plants and animals We're on a bender When it's 80 degrees at the end of December What's going on? Only for you and me [Verse 2] When the showing up ends Who's going back to the south? Where hungry necks that I know And running the blender in a lightning storm Are disguised as a blessing I'm sure Growing up here There comes a fork in the road Pants have gotta go We're on an island on the Fourth of July It looks like the tide is going home In time I'd find a little way to your heart Down to the general store for nothing specific Gonna wash my bones in the Atlantic shore Only for you and me