Uncle Tupelo - Black Eye lyrics

he had a black eye he was proud of like some of his friends it made him feel somewhere outside of everything and everywhere he'd been like his brothers he emptied himself and played it safe like their father he wanted to remember but he almost always forgot what he was gonna say black eye black eye when he realized that this one was here to stay he took down all the mirrors in the hallway and thought only of his younger face black eye black eye