Let me tell you about
A season of unvetted doubts
I was sitting like flypaper in the kitchen
Waiting on wings and broken dishes

Let me tell you about
The night I got drunk and fell through a table
I was laying the road saying, “Damn it, I'm blind”
“You should really take a look at the stars.”

You take a look at the stars, Danny.
You take a look at the stars.
You take a look at the stars, Danny.

Let me tell you about
The night that we went up to Tahoe
Looking to dip into some free hot tubs
The doors were locked and they were all dried up

So we started driving around
Just like that the engine overheated
Blew a head gasket at the top of the pass
I was tracking coolant all into the grass

Jake came and picked us up
With tow straps all the way from New York
He say, “Back where I'm from this is what friends do.”
“You help them, they help you.”

You take a look at the stars, Danny.
You take a look at the stars.
You take a look at the stars, Danny.

Got on a bus to SF
There was a man on the phone to my left
Owed his son like seventy dollars
Had warrants out and he just got collared

There was an old crazy man
With a suitcase all filled up with candy
He would work his hands and look out the window
Laughing at the cars and all the crazy people

Went to the science place
With all the other people out trying to win the race
Of could read and learn the most
About Mr. Charles Darwin's ghost.

I guess nobody won
It started to rain, the buses wouldn't run
You better buy a poncho or you're gonna get wet
I tried to hold your hand, you put it in your pocket

You take a look at the stars, Danny.
You take a look at the stars.
You take a look at the stars, Danny.

On the way back to Reno
Saw a man on the street with yellow eyes
He said, “You do your best to take care of the missus”
“Alcohol kills, but loneliness dies.”

Gonna drive the whole way home
Got tired, spent a night in Pocatello
Last hotel room in fifty miles
Pow wows in town, we fell asleep with the lights off

Never heard you been so quiet
Talking about middle eastern political climates
You play the music and I'll just drive
You put on a sad song, you weren't lying

You take a look at the stars, Danny.
You take a look at the stars.
You take a look at the stars, Danny.

Saw your folks at the end of the week
Your dad said, “Don't buy no shitty-ass Jeep”
“And park that junker up in my yard.”
You argued with him, you said you knew he was wrong.

Left at eight o'clock
My mom was pissed because she had to work
Bought a bunch of groceries, had my birthday card
We drove home in your mom's car

You better watch your words
You say 'I' like 'we' won't ever work
You buy a bunch of fifty dollar prepaid phone cards
Speaking Spanish on the phone can't be that hard

I walked eleven miles home
After looking at a rusted-out, piece-of-shit jeep
Mechanic said, “That's a bad investment”
Waited by the phone, it didn't make a peep

You take a look at the stars, Danny.
You take a look at the stars.
You take a look at the stars, Danny.

I know all about
Your dad, his yard, and a rusty jeep
But I don't think about that yard
I don't think about that yard, again.

Yard again
Yard again
Yard again
Yard again
Yard again
Yard again
Yard again