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Beneath a maple tree I watch the dying leaves let go |
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And tumble down on the blacktop street |
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Got some wild fire in these early morning eyes |
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There's a shift in the wind and all the colors rush in |
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I let it fill my heart till I feel it split |
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Hit the road in just these clothes and get away |
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Drop the everyday, make some love against the grain |
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This nation is stitched up with Christmas lights |
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Billboards dogmas and sex shop signs |
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Strung along these roads we drive |
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With haste when I need to slow down |
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And there's a hurt that dwells in each town I pass |
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Where a silent war broke the working man |
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Left with little more than pink paper and rain |
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Just trying to find the way back to shore again |
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But what gets me the most is that hint of love |
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That perseveres in the face of just giving up |
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And that alone my friend is beauty you can't buy |
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The darkest places fill with the faintest light |
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So I pull off slow to the truck stop glow |
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Kill the lights and just listen to the highway moan |
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Like grandfather time singing blues to the western wind |
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I fill up the tank and have a look around |
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And I love what I see because it's all right now |
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Go inside and give my money to a girl with soft brown eyes |
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Though I hardly speak a word 'cause she froze me up inside |
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And I curse the way I fall for everything |
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Walk back to the car and let my secrets sting |
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When the butterflies become a swarm of bees |
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It's a delicate pose I taught myself to hold |
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No chance for love without letting go of this free heart |
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Unbound, chasing selfish dreams |
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I'm just a lonely soldier on the road the greater things |