I came to this world in a seaside town where

the water could cool your broken body out

I learned you can rise over the cards in your hand

Mama was a woman and a hard-workin' man

Now everyone I know had to make their own bed

Try to do as good as their fathers did for them

I never knew mine so I bandaged the hurt

I pretended that my daddy was a bank robber

Oh but you, you always said

you're just too good a ship to wreck

You said, never mind nothin

There's a summertime humming once the bandages come off

Yes, and you always believed there

was some kind of diamond in me

Oh but if you still burn every night in the hurt

I know a place where the pain doesn't reach

Come wander with me

Come wander with me

Now I tried to believe but it's so hard to know

How to do right, Rudy, with the seeds that we've sewn

But the voices are loud and the miles are long

And heroes are a hard thing to find when you're gone

Oh but you, you always said

you're just too good a ship to wreck

You said, Never mind nothin

There's a summertime humming once the bandages come off

Yes, and you always believed there

was some kind of diamond in me

Oh but if you still burn every night in the hurt

I know a place where the pain doesn't reach

Come wander with me

Come wander with me

Now I hope the things that trouble me

they don't catch you or put you on your knees

But I found out time and work don't make you a man

Because time didn't teach me anything

and the working only broke my hands

And when someday came I did not understand

U-understand, understand

Oh but you, you always said

you're just too good a ship to wreck

You said, Never mind nothin

There's a summertime humming once the bandages come off

Yes, and you always believed there

was some kind of diamond in me

Oh but if you still burn every night in the hurt

I know a place where the pain doesn't reach

Come wander with me

(It's hard to sleep, I can bring you a dream, my baby, come wander with me)

Come wander with me