Well pardon me I just got to thinking
We never really knew what we were doing
Some starless night, I-80, I was baptized outside of Lincoln
When I called to tell you I was sorry
Too little too late, I know
But you ever get the feeling you say nothing at all
Then the guilt’s got nowhere to go?

Maybe I deserve that. Maybe I should just sit and think.
Besides, I heard that you got married in the spring.

I thought conveyer belt I ride remind me I aint’ ever getting out alive
And if you’ve held someone’s love once, you hold it for the rest of their lives
I know it sounds silly to say it like that
But when it’s the only hope you have, you’ve just got to have it.

Well pardon me for just interrupting,
you just came through my mind all the sudden
I was Biloxi bound from a midwest town with a haircut that I’m still regretting
And I laughed with you at the ocean
So different from our lakes, I know
I’d have soaked in more of that murky gulf shore if I knew now I’d have nothing to show

But you can’t predict that - the way that people just come and go
Along the north platte - you get to raise your boy to know