Drive-By Truckers - Wednesday lyrics

There was something in the
Envelope she passed him
That weighed more to him than
Paper and some ink
It had a hint of something darker
And a hint of something sweet
And a little extra glue right on the tip

There was something in the pain
That shot right through him
As he climbed up to the
Place he called his home
They say every man's house
Should be his palace
But his castle stank of cat shit and alone

So he opened it and found a faded picture
Of a girl he's never met, but somehow seen
Like a memory of a dream from early childhood
Like a virgin's idea of release
She said "I can bend my


Arms until they're backward
"But, you can't bend your will
To take in mine "And I could hold my
Breath until next Wednesday
"And still be doing fine"

He was sad in ways that he couldn't tell her
Though she tried to make his
Sadness all her own
He couldn't see the use in spreading sadness
So he took his dark depression and went home

She saw things in him that he never bargained
But it wasn't enough to save
Either one of them because she took all that
Sadness one step further
And left him all alone to face the end