Buddy Miller - Keep Your Distance lyrics

(Richard Thompson) if i cross your path again who knows where who knows when on some morning without number on some highway without end don't grasp my hand and say fate has brought us here today fate is only fooling with us friend keep your distance keep your distance when i feel you close to me what can i do but fall keep your distance keep your distance for with us it must be all or none at all it's a desperate game we play throw our souls our lives away on wounds that can't be mended and debts that can't be payed i played and i got stung now i'm biting back my tounge and sweeping out the footprints where i strayed