Somewhere Better Lyrics

He took a walk into the deep end

And left a notebook on the shore

Before the cops could even find it

The sun had got there first

And bleached the words into a blur

Mama says he's somewhere better

The coroner just says he drowned

When we were kids we built a ladder to the sky

I scrapped the wood for something sound

We took the long way to the diner

When summer had us by the throat

We passed the billboard asking where we plan to spend eternity

I guess it's nice to think they know

But then the day was never ending

And all the roads just circled back

The town became the kind of story only Steinbeck could have told

And I swear I could hear him laughing