Lyrics

Well it started when I was just a young man
I wouldn?t see the wrong from right
I can?t forget the cloudy sky the first time that we met
On the day that I first got fuckin tight

The booze was overtaking my resistance
Nine times out of ten I sure got bent
When I met Mary Jane it was the end of what remained
And the beginning of the road on which I went

The place that I once knew, the place that I once knew
I?m never going back to the place that I once knew
It left me broke and scarred and feeling things untrue
I?m never going back to the place that I once knew

On nights when I was at the wheel of mercy
And should have been to jail
My 1981 yellow Pontiac Acadian drove me home
And the old man would always post the bail

At times I never knew if I was coming back
The trip would run me down
I showed up at a party where Kirk Knapp couldn?t recognize me
After three days without sleeping on the own

The place that I once knew, the place that I once knew
I?m never going back to the place that I once knew
It left me broke and scarred and feeling things untrue
I?m never going back to the place that I once knew

Things that I have learned throughout my travels
Have led me to believe
That livin fast and dying young is just the way it seems
From now on that life just ain?t for me

Now I often times admit I was a failure
Sometimes there?s nothing you can do
And in the end you feel no pain until you rise again
And feel the pain within the place that I once knew

The place that I once knew, the place that I once knew
I?m never going back to the place that I once knew
It left me broke and scarred and feeling things untrue
I?m never going back to the place that I once knew