Got busy this month and started running out of time, so I've dispensed with production. Besides, I think the sound of a guy shouting to be heard over a simple electric guitar is pretty much what I had in mind.
We were riding by ghost towns when I caught you drifting to the shoulder again.
You told me that if you crossed your eyes you could see the way that things looked then.
Why don’t we pull over? I could drive and you could stare.
You said that you were afraid if you stopped you’d settle down right there.
I don’t mind, we’ve got some time. One place is as good as another.
Our town’s surrounded by levees and walls with rivers pushing in on all sides,
shut out by great steel gates marked with years and heights of floods and tides.
The house is covered in ivy, your hair is filling up with gray, and I
just want to join the teenagers up there drinking out on the quay.
And ooh, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t mind, or that one time’s as good as another.
Set up, settle up this time, you know it hurts but I’m okay.
I just wish I could give you the books that say the things that I’d like to say.
And after a while I saw you smile.
Uncross my eyes, I hope I’m ready to go when I… Hope I’m ready to go when I… Hope I'm ready to go when I....
Hope I’m ready to die.
@coolparadiso Feb 2022
love it from the first chord. real classic style. great foot tapper. really good listen i really enjoyed this!
@tseaver Feb 2022
Nice write: the storytelling is spot on here.
@eric Feb 2022
I like the linear feel of this song and the chords and melody work really well together. Cairo, Illinois? That's one town I've always wanted to visit.