People ask how I am
I tell them, "I'm okay"
You know I hate to be a liar
But what you gonna say?
I'm stuck in the middle
Now and then, you and her
The highway is the only thing
that I know for sure

Paper bags and cardboard boxes
It seems I'm always packin' up my stuff
and hauling it away to some other place to stay
It's never too long til I've had enough

It's cold and it rains and I'm sleepin' on somebody's floor
Imagination don't even seem to help much anymore
I was up in the attic lookin' through some old trunk
Why is it I always think about you, when I see this old junk?

Paper bags and cardboard boxes
It seems I'm always packin' up my stuff
and hauling it away to some other place to stay
It's never too long til I've had enough

She says she still loves me
and I know she believes it too
But when she takes me in her loving arms
Somethin' don't ring, just don't ring true

Paper bags and cardboard boxes
It seems I'm always packin' up my stuff
and hauling it away to some other place to stay
It's never too long til I've had enough