Well I'm just a stranger
I'm only a walker
I guess I am human
But sometimes I feel like I'm only a ghost
Like I'm only a wall
And if you come around, honey, I'll probably just follow you home
'Cause it's all that I know how to do
I was born by a body
I'll die by one too
And places are nothing if they ain't got you

And one day I will be a steamboat baby
One day I can be a freight train lady
I'll roll down a river
And the miles won't phase me

Oh I wish I was better at being alone
Still every night I call you on the phone
Oh I wish I was more than my skin and my bones

But I've been arranging each of my movements
And all of my gestures
And trying to fool myself
Into thinking that everything's small
And nothing has reason
I woke up and cried a convulsion of honesty
Brought me to life when I thought I was gone
But I can't put a lie in the mouth of a song

And one day I will be a steamboat baby
One day I can be a freight train lady
I'll roll down a river
And the miles won't phase me

Oh I wish I was better at being alone
Still every night I call you on the phone
Oh I wish I was more than my skin and my bones
Oh I wish I was more than my skin and my bones