I think I was about 62% along the path towards writing a good song this week, both musically and lyrically. Might be worth revisiting.
lyrics
you ain’t never seen a sunrise
on such a sleepy stretch of road
up from Muddy Gap to Casper
these tires tap out a code
a secret message left to solve
if I only had the key
but I left all that behind me
in a flat in Los Feliz
and I wish I could remember
the terms we parted on
but we don’t talk too much about it
we don’t show our hand too long
thought I’d found you in the valley
where the bones bleach in the sun
there was nowhere left to hole up
just the smell of smoking guns
breathe that primrose
don’t you forget
lost your shadow
the deeper the debt
counting the wages of summer sins
out where the prairie’s edge begins
when I turned down Hillhurst, crying
on my way to 80 East
I could tell I’d never see those palms
til I’d killed the shackled beast
all the memories of the failures
all the failures I forgot
in the milkweed and the switchgrass
and the shattered love I sought
when I crossed the city limits
passed the cemetery walls
where they’ve laid my folks to rest
the generations rise and fall
I have made a broken promise
I have forfeit every vow
but in the dust across my dashboard
is the ghost of scythe and plow
breathe that primrose
don’t you forget
lost your shadow
the deeper the debt
counting the wages of summer sins
out where the prairie’s edge begins
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