I can’t keep from trying
Where everyday living can’t hold me
I see it in my mind’s eye, touch me real as daytime

I’ll be sitting in the backseat with my hair in my face
I can’t keep from trying
I carry you, you carry me
I can’t keep from trying
No place to run for a girl like me

Whole lot of used to’s and supposed to be’s
I wanna burn like August, shine like gold dust
Don’t be a stranger who won’t show his face
If I got my hopes too high, this is no easy kind of life
I got no promise but these words I say

I see it in my mind’s eye, touch me real as daytime

If I got my hopes too high, this is no easy kind of life
So when I reach for you from some way down place
I see it in my mind’s eye, touch me real as daytime
Then gone fast as freedom on good wind

I see it in my mind’s eye, touch me real as daytime
I can’t keep from trying
If I got my hopes too high, this is no easy kind of life