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On your own but that's alright this time around Nobody knows where you come from So you tell them that you're from some other town So far away gray was the field where you left her Waving down a dusty road Her hand was waving like a flag on a pole When you said goodbye goodbye goodbye And hello to the highway sign And hello to the dotted line And hello to an empty seat She used to sit right there I'll take the blame you make the move Quick change of lanes under the over pass Lights on the ground getting closer The stars look farther away There's a bobtail pulling up the right side There's a Greyhound pullin up the left look out There's a pickup pulling up floodlights on And a railroad crossing up ahead And you remember what she said when you left You think about it over and over She never believed you'd leave Miles and miles and miles and miles and miles 'till you're back in the city Where the days don't end when the sun goes down You got one room on the first floor It's two doors down to the liquor store A cup of coffee in the morning The television on all night Smoking cigarettes round 'till the filter burns down See the smoke pulling into the light Did you catch the name of the girl in the leather gown Or were you too fucked up to write it down Another blues band played your one night stand All you took home was a good God dam There's a pay phone ringing in the alley A fight breaking out in the hall A couple going at it in the room next store The sound whips through the crack in the wall And you remember what she said as you left you think about it Over and over She never believed you'd leave Miles and miles and miles and miles and miles 'till you're back in the city on your own but that's alright This time around |