Can You?

[The Laughing Man]

• I have walked open roads
  Like nerves in open wounds
  
  Leery for miles to come
  Weary of miles gone long
  
  Never once was I where I was at
  Unless it was before, or behind me
  
  You can say "I've been there"
  But yet you cannot smell the air
  
  You cannot see the dollar bill
  The last one left to chase the chill
  
  You cannot look at me
  And not recognize who I've become
  
  
  
  Can you promise yourself
  You won't believe your lies?
  
  Can you seek a waste of hours
  to only try never to find them again?
  
  Can you crave that never to find
  The life you thought you left behind?
  
  Can you deny and then can you fear
  A promise dear and a hope so clear?
  
  I can.