By Alice Sebold (1992)
On album Dirt (1992)

…as a whisper or the wave of a whisper undulating down. I would compare it to a woman in the back of a lecture hall or theater whom…
…the rest it is like an unexplained breeze in a closed room.
Grandma Lynn died several years later, but I have yet to see her here. I imagine her tying…
…be honest with you, I still sneak away to watch my family sometimes. I can't help it, and sometimes they still think…

…before I wake
Please God walk with me
Grab a nigga and take me to Heaven
[Julius Luciano]
Many times I was stuck up at the Greyhound…
…Station
Momma where we goin'? She said wait now, patience
Wait now? Ma, it's gettin' late now, I hate this
Greyhound workers got…
…was homeless, everytime I hear a bus near us
I wanna leave as my tear ducts fill up
My bro had major surgery in Georgia
Hurt me to…

…I was standin' at the Greyhound bus station
When my little woman stepped on board
I was standin' at the Greyhound bus station…
When my little woman stepped on board
Well I was just standin' there thinkin'
Come back baby please don't go
Well when that Greyhound…
…' Lightnin' couldn't do nothin'
People but hang my head and cry
Well all right son...
I don't know why she wanna go and leave me
Lord…

…come back and take this hurt off me
I'll be waiting at the bus station
'Cause that's where you left me standin'
I got my clothes…
…come back and take this hurt off me
I knocked on my mother's door
She said, a 'Don, walk on in'
'Son, you don't have to…
…!
Mercy!
But now, I've been to see my doctor, yeah
(I been to see the doctor, now)
He did all he could
(He did all he could…

…She didn't see me see her cryin'
As she sat there by the window
On a southbound Greyhound leavin' town
The hardest thing I've…
…ever done
Was to walk away and let that woman go
'Cause she came close to turnin' me around
Now I know she missed her mama
'Cause…
But I'll be gone before she gets there
And I'll see her every time I'm lookin' back
Heaven knows I ain't no angel
And I don't always do…

…a ki'
Business is good, got a new wife, I could do this for the rest of my life
Hang with stars, drive fast cars, still wear…
…the spot, picked up the drop then I got popped
They said "We got you", read me my rights, and all I could think about was my wife
Got to the station…
…be with the homie Jay Lee
I thought good things, like before I done drugs, and before the train with no love
I called my wife, she…

…get this thing off the ground
I'm on top of the Greyhound station
Won't you please come home?
I'm on top of the Greyhound station
Won't…
…you please come home?
Been up here since 4:05, my workday is done
Pocket's fat for my kitty cat, we're gonna have some fun
When I…
…see those big high beams cross the county line
I get butterflies and the shiver spines
Gonna jump right down and wrap you up…

…of anger and doubts
Finally stole his way to a half-way house
And there a little grey-haired woman on a life long mission
Took him by the hand, said…
…rolled into his life needin' a map
He could tell she was running
She could tell he had a good heart
She said, "I don't know where I'm…
…going."
He said, "I've been where you are."
[Chorus]
Well, that map that he gave her, she never opened up
Before morning came…

…spend a lot of money on me like Smilez & Southstar
Before I wet up your steering wheel
Move on your Louis Vuitton decoration…
…in your car
Don't offer me a drink, I don't wanna go to the bar
[repeat 2X]
I get in you, I continue, I boost up the menu
[Kool Keith…
…what he, went to see his P.O
Upper class, witty
Kool Keith stood on the Twin Towers before
Peed a hundred stories off, my urine…

…spend a lot of money on me like Smilez & Southstar
Before I wet up your steering wheel
Move on your Louis Vuitton decoration…
…in your car
Don't offer me a drink, I don't wanna go to the bar
[repeat 2X]
I get in you, I continue, I boost up the menu
[Kool Keith…
…what he, went to see his P.O.
Upper class, witty
Kool Keith stood on the Twin Towers before
Peed a hundred stories off, my urine…

…know how i stand the things this woman do to me
Let me tell you
When i think about how she do me, the tears fall down like rain…
…starts actin' up again
Oh let me tell you
I'm goin' down to the bus station with a suitcase in my hand, yes i am
I'm goin' down to…
…the bus station with a suitcase in my hand, yes i am
I'm gonna grab me an armful of greyhound and ride just as close i can
Do…

…don't know how I stand
The things this woman do to me
Let me tell you
When I think about how she do me
The tears fall down like…
…down
She starts actin' up again
Well, oh, let me tell you
I'm goin' down to the bus station
With a suitcase in my hand, yes I am
I'm…
…goin' down to the bus station
With a suitcase in my hand, yes I am
I'm gonna grab me a armful of Greyhound
And ride just…

…sometime I don't know how I stand
The thing this woman do to me
When I think about how she treats me
Tears fall down like rain…
…the bus station
With a suitcase in my hand
I'm gonna catch me an armful of Greyhound
And ride just as far as I can
Somebody have mercy…
…know how I stand
The things this woman do to me
Well, I'm standin', wonderin', baby
With a matchbox hole in my clothes
Standin…

…adrift between
Run away, no destination
Greyhound station, release me abomination
Not again
My demons have populations
[Verse 1…
…: Backxwash]
My only reason for being locked in submission
Or caught off religion
Is born as part of the system, I see…
…the
The holy scriptures
Politics on the women
The prodigies and ambition
Their fallacies are forgiven, I see
Lost in addiction
Exiled from my…

Looking through the window of the greyhound station down in San Antone
Watching people come and people go and feeling so alone…
And every face I see reminds me of the one I've left behind me crying
Knowing I should go back home and heaven knows how hard I'm…
…and a Denver woman on my mind
I remember standing at the door and looking back as she lay sleeping
And very gently through the window pane…