Line In The Dust Lyrics - Bruce Hornsby

I'm walking outside and I see you arrive 

I say, "Let's go for a ride, and have a good old time" 

Whoa, I'm saving up lies, or just stay quiet every time 

While you talk in your line, keep everything fine, whoa fine 

Between us, I can see, things are not what they used to be 

My old friend changed, or maybe it was me 

Things get so complicated, jokes made, friendships dissipated 

Long silence but I speak now so belated 

I say, "Hey, wait a minute, what's that you said? 

Not so sure that I heard you right" 

Whoa, "Hey, wait a minute, oh say that again 

You're in the dust drawing a long straight line" 

We'd be playing outside, we'd swing on the swings 

Shared most everything, sit there and even sing 

Now I sit and wonder, why it's a friendship charade 

Looking for fights all day, I don't want to play 

Whoa, but I do, here we go, you fire off another lame remark 

You're in the dark 

No bite, just your bark but it leaves a painful mark 

Oh, painful mark on your soul, takes its toll, might as well fold 

I've got my courage up, gonna roll, roll 

I say, "Hey, wait a minute, what's that you said? 

Not so sure that I heard you right" 

Whoa, "Hey, wait a minute, oh say that again 

You're in the dust drawing a long straight line" 

We talk and talk but you never see, unreconstructed defiantly 

My old friend changed but maybe it was me 

Things get so complicated, jokes made, friendships dissipated 

I've stayed quiet so we don't get alienated 

Well I say, "Hey, wait a minute, what's that you said? 

Not so sure that I heard you right" 

Whoa, "Hey, wait a minute, oh say that again 

You're in the dust drawing a long straight line" 

Wait, wait a minute 

Oh say that again 

Watch yourself drawing a line in the dust 

Wait, wait a minute 

Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute 

Wait, wait, wait, wait 

I'm saving up lies, or just stay quiet every time 

While you talk in your line, keep everything fine, whoa fine, yeah 

I can see, things are not what they used to be