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I remember the rain / And how my skin was wet / How I kissed you on the neck / You said I looked strung out / We were older in the dark / So much younger when we met / And with all this blood we’ve let / I said why not head south / Itchy feet drive me home to Fayetteville / There’s nothing in this house for me but roommates and bills / And I’ve no intention of paying them back / Leave a note on the door and reference Kerouac / And if you ask where I am / My friends will tell you they don’t know / Tell you they don’t know / And that’s not a lie / I’m not the type to say goodbye

For weeks of sleepless nights / Tried to get it off my mind / Tequila and red wine / JR was good to me / But a year or so at most / Is all that I could pass / Soft hands of sweet relapse / To visit I agreed / And you looked nothing like the night
We met on Gold Medal Hill / When your young lungs gasped
Every time they tried to fill / Now you sit and stare and tap your cigarette / And that’s okay It’s just a little different / When you asked how I’d left things at home / I told you I don’t know / Told you I don’t know / And that’s not a lie / I’m not the type to say goodbye

Then you took me by the bridge / Told of the year your mother took ill / That’s a dirty trick / I know you learned it from me / And up here it’s lush and green / Like my lovely Ozark hills / But it will soon be crystalline / And all that Hennepin ice can kill / That Hennepin ice can kill

I was talking with my granddad / He said the decisions that seem like mistakes / Are sometimes the best ones that you make / How true that can be / So it’s not you or me to blame / I think we all want the same / To leave and have someone say our name / I’m not sure that’s for me / I’m just a map of blue highways, a trip no one ever takes / And here’s your chance; I get the feeling that you’ll stay / You’ll miss the dust from my wheels when it settles down / And there’s nothing to tell it ever left the ground / But if you ask if you can come along / I’ll tell you I don’t know / Tell you I don’t know / We both know that’s a lie / I’m not the type to say goodbye / Of course you can, I’m not the type to say goodbye

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