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Any Driver
04:37
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Stagger toward another sunset
Limp into some liminal lounge
We come here first. We come here first.
Searing light from streetside snowpile
Building pressure behind my left eye
We come here first. We come here first.
Will any driver pick me up?
Will any driver pick me up?
Steering wheel, handlebars, coffee in my cup
Will any driver pick me up?
Loose boots scrape on loveless concrete
arm hang useless at my side
We come here first. We come here first.
Screaming surge of earshot exit
Mounting panic behind my windows
We come here first. We come here first.
Will any driver pick me up?
Will any driver pick me up?
Wedding rings, convenience stores, and coffee in my cup
Will any driver pick me up?
Will any driver pick me up?
Will any driver pick me up?
Playing cards, photographs, coffee in my cup
Will any driver pick me up?
Will any driver pick me up?
Will any driver pick me up?
Cigarettes, Paperback, whiskey in my cup
Will any driver pick me up?
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My Cartoon Mind
04:00
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I think we’ve been down this road before
I think we got about as lost back then as we are now
Remember last time when we fought that same old fight
Did I say anything smarter then
Or am I just repeating myself?
Round and round the curves and canyons
Chasing after something that we’ll never catch or even find
And I’m running off a cliff but I don’t fall until I notice it
That’s what happens every time
To you and me in my cartoon mind.
You’d think we’d figure out this world by now
All watercolor cliffs and highways, no way out
For every time I put the bear trap on the road
You’ll always run away from me
I’ll always bring you back again
Round and round the curves and canyons
Chasing after something that we’ll never catch or even find
And I’m running off a cliff but I don’t fall until I notice it
That’s what happens every time
To you and me in my cartoon mind.
I think we’ve been down this road before
I think we got about as lost back then as we are now
Maybe the next time when we see the same old signs
We’ll mind the edge and stop the chase
Or fall down to the ground again
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Opening Out of Town
03:26
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After fifteen years of nothing you still want to carry on
And I don’t know what you’re thinking ‘cause so much is simply gone
With so much you could be saying there’s so little that you’ve said
All despite the conversations that you built inside your head
Now the one chance left is to wander off across the prairie
Only take what you can carry
When you’ve got to where you’ve gone
Take the stage with the house lights on
Opening out of town
And you’ve interrogated everyone to try to get some clue
For the way the wind is blowing, for the thing you ought to do
But the answers must be out there on some far-forgotten plain
Long walks for desperation, longer pilgrimage for pain
So the one chance left is to wander off across the prairie
Only take what you can carry
When you’ve got to where you’ve gone
Take the stage with the house lights on
Opening out of town
After fifteen hours of knowing you still don’t believe it’s here
But there’s no sense in denying what is obvious and clear
Now the flowers, they are blooming on the right side of your smile
Planted out of desperation from the left side of the aisle
Now the one chance left is to wander off across the prairie
Only take what you can carry
When you’ve got to where you’ve gone
Take the stage with the house lights on
Opening out of town
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Joe Griffin Chicago, Illinois
Singer/songwriter in Chicago, IL.
Cover photo by Joe Mazza. Banner photo by Peter Angus Medlock.
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