Take It Around Again

Carrie Newcomer · My True Name [1998]

Too hot to sleep in this room tonight

Just too restless to try

I've been folding my prayers into paper airplanes

Leaning out the window and watching them fly



Music fills the air

Waiting for something

I know isn't there

But there is no shame or sin

In saying "Take it around again"

Sometimes this all feels like a long slow dream

With the years just spilling by

Sometimes I think I've given all I can



But then I think again

And that's a sorry lie

Music fills the air

Waiting for something

I know isn't there

But there is no shame or sin

In saying "Take it around"

"Take it around again"

God bless those hearts that never rest



Who haunt these roads and rooms

May we all pay off our debts

And sleep at home

Some night soon



There's just no brass ring hangin' way out there

Just beyond our reach

I guess I believe that we are born to try

And that I've always had one hell of a ride



Music fills the air

Waiting for something

I know isn't there

But there is no shame or sin

In saying "Take it around "

"Take it around "

"Take it around again"