Keep The Lights

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Across the city line to anywhere but here
Beyond the ivy walls my dear to disappear
With diamonds in her eyes and a key around her neck
Yours truly left behind to recreate the wreck

Full speed ahead at any cost don’t spare the bridges now
And cut the deadweight let it crash and burn
Nothing stands between these tires and endless open road
Ride further faster never to return

Keep the lights back home ablaze carry onward come what may
Lift your voice up unafraid you’re exactly where you should be
Make a joyful noise today like a Boxing Day Parade
Throw all your cares away where you’re headed it’s all gonna’ be okay

Forget our debt and tread a wealth of miles beneath
Could not our driven stride be ever more complete
The taste is on our tongues of freedom and of change
Whence bore a silent scorn release and rise again

Full speed ahead at any cost don’t spare the bridges now
And cut the deadweight let it crash and burn
Nothing stands between these tires and endless open road
Ride further faster never to return

An only child from Indiana when she moved out to the coast
With two thousand and a record, black and blue from head to toe
Built a start to something better wrote her thoughts down in a letter
To a mother in the gutter uttered tears in stereo

Set aside the tidal water of her bootstrap kingdom come
Takes a pauper to be grateful for the offshore setting sun
Drop the needle like an anchor hit the surface wild and blue
No regrets and don’t forget the roots run deep
You can’t runaway from you

- May 2016 -