Turn away from the pain you don't want Turning down to avoid them when they call Strange words I heard a long, long time ago I wish I could go back to a summertime I knew more than twenty years ago Lay between the sheets Lie underneath the maple tree Now I can't smile Lying down in the gra** with the wind around us As we smile and talk Listen to your grandma sing those country songs She'd tell us how the maple turns to fire every four years We'd lay in the gra** all summer Just to watch the autumn come around I can't smile I can't smile, yeah yeah yeah Now I live alone And you're so far away Yeah, I call you every year Just around the holidays I still see you in the night Lying above me in the gra** I can't smile Turn away from the pain you don't want Turning down to avoid them when they call I can't believe this letter that says you died I think I'm gonna go back to the house In North Carolina and lay in the backyard Get drunk and let the leaves just bury me, bury me I can't smile I can't smile I don't what's happened to me I don't what's happened to me I can't smile, hey