There's a clinic by a lake Where we used to set our ducks free When their feathers would grow stiff And we'd grow tired So we'd watch them from the bank Of the water by the clinic Just hoping for the best That they'd survive I always wondered if the doctor Of the clinic ever saw us Through the window of his office Where he lived And I wondered on the day When he had to call my father To tell him something's there That wasn't there before Indiana, do you know What he thought about that night Like was he thinking about dying or coming home Indiana, did you tell him, oh Did you tell him it was going to be alright My upstairs neighbor was a dancer I liked following her footsteps Keeping time across my ceiling And her floor But as I followed, my phone rang It was my mother for my father And I couldn't hear the dancer Anymore Indiana, do you know What he thought about that night Like was he thinking about dying or coming home Indiana, did you tell him, oh Did you tell him it was going to be alright In the morning, right before He hit the hotel floor