"One Of A Thousand" lyrics

Well, they finally found him
Way on out in Tennessee
30–40 miles of water
From his family

7, 9, 31 and 33
Of the hits still coming
This one hits the most with me

One in a thousand
Or one of a thousand
Ain't that just the question
Going round and back around
And back around?

Climbing up the ridge, babe
High and looking down
I ain't never seen the night so dark
In every part of town

Seems another life ago
When I thought all these troubles were another's
Now you're starting over
Baby, I don't know

It's one in a thousand
Or one of a thousand
But once you scratch the record
Don't it come back around?
Back around, back around

There's a phantom thorn inside me
For the ash of North Los Angeles
The Mystic girls in Texas
The people of Valencia

And every sign of it I see
I bend through the lens
Of a child looking down
Looking for another ending

Sometimes when the night is clear
And rising through the trees
I feel the bony silhouetted reach
Of how it used to be

But it's too late to call your mother
Asking for forgiveness
For your killing all those pieces of her
Bringing her to this

It's one in a thousand
Or one of a thousand
But once you scratch the record
Don't it come back around?
Back around, back around