Cherokee - John Moreland

I guess I’ve got a taste for poison

I’ve given up on ever being well

I keep mining the horizon

Digging for lies I’ve yet to tell

I wish you were here to softly say name

Calm down all the chemicals tearing through my brain

I don’t think I’ve missed you this much since I was seventeen

I’d call you in the morning but I think this is a dream

Cherokee

Cherokee

Where you carved those doubts right out of me

I see you shining through the treetops

But I don’t feel you pulling strings anymore

I still use your old alarm clock

Every morning I get further off of course

And don’t I hear you speaking in the noises of this house

Airplanes flying over shaking all my secrets out

Now darling tell me something I don’t already know

I’m aware of where to find you

It hurts too bad to go

To Cherokee

Cherokee

Where you carved those doubts right out of me

I felt like the world was burning

You had stars in your eyes

Shining for a feeling I can’t afford to buy

Everything you taught me still rattles in my head

I’m staying off of Main Street

You’re talking to the dead

In Cherokee

Cherokee

I wish you’d carve these doubts right out of me