Can You Hear Me Now Lyrics

Can You Hear Me Now
(Emmylou Harris & Malcolm Burn)

O the walls are closin'in
I can feel it in my bones
Like water risin'up to my chin
Another long night to be alone
I could go out on the town
Talk too much and laugh too loud
If I'm already on my way down

I might as well just word the crowd

O the stories I could tell
Sometimes I really hit my stride
We make our own Heaven and our own Hell
Tryin'to get across to the other side
But everyday ends up the dame
One step up, tow steps back
Like some old silent movie frame
Zoom in close, then fade to back

Can you hear me now

How did the load get to be so heavy
I used to wear my tourble like a crown
A bad flood's poundin'on the levee
And i'm gonna need some help
TO hold my ground

But i'm sinkin'like a stone
To where in solitude this life i'll spend
In the soldest place i've ever known
I'm here just waitin'until the end
I send up my S.O.S.
A messange in a bottle set out to sea
It just reads "Soul in distress"
But nebody ever got back to me

Can you hear me now