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I escaped from you to los angeles Where the air clings to you like a soaking dress And the leaves don’t age like in michigan I escaped from you to los Angeles I came out here to find a better place To save myself from these structured ways Oh these kids just know how to play it safe I came out here to find a better place Away from her Well the car is still running And my stuff in the trunk Don't hold onto to something that never will come And if I leave here tonight dear there's no turning back I'm going to LA with your heart in my hands

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I was your rock in your wildest transition Doctored you up in the worst of your days So you preached me your gospel when no one else listened Yes I sat in your pew just to hear what you’d say Eastern time’s just like a car where the brake lights Are burned out from stoppin’ one too many times So you look out your rearview, catch the last of the sunlight Hope whatever’s down the road is worth what’s left behind Always turn to sometimes Sometimes turn to nevers Temporary goodbyes Turn into forever You go sing your Rocky Top And buy a tighter skirt And I’ll leave my Great Smoky Love with you babe And you can decide what it’s worth I thought of you while all the white constellations Burned through the black veil hung up in the sky If those stars persist to be seen through the darkness Then I sure as Hell can remain in your life You like to be kissed when we passed by the drug store Our town’s only traffic light lit up in red When the yellow bulbs burned you would lean in for one more But these days I hope for the green lights instead Eastern time’s just like a car where the brake lights Are burned out from stoppin’ one too many times So you look out your rearview, catch the last of the sunlight Hope whatever’s down the road is worth what’s left behind

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Winter turns to fall?Morning darkens all?And the roaring sun it starts to fall You’re a war machine?Living hard and mean?No I can’t believe what you want to see All the time you’ve seen Didn’t look between the lines of all those books you read Devil dancing on a garden wall?Ain’t it funny you’re the one that falls Was it you I heard that crying call And you’d rather just be one?In the gullet of a maxim gun?Burning through the masses of the one’s for whom your god is young And you’d rather hold some other’s son?Keep me marching to the restless drum?Oh my lover, my love, oh what have I done??More than should anyone Just a war machine?Living hard and mean?You wouldn’t care to know the blood I’ve seen Hundred thousand lives?Scattered over little miles?Sacred medals in the sunlight gleam And you’d rather just be one?In the gullet of a maxim gun?Burning through the masses of the one’s for whom your god is young And you’d rather hold some other’s son?Keep me marching to the restless drum?Oh my lover, beloved, oh what have I done? Though you’re far away You’ll never let me go?Though you’ll never stoop to show You’re kingdom’s crown?Bound in bones you’ve broken down In a court of silent sound Just a war machine?Living hard and mean?You didn’t look between the lines I’m on a garden wall?Laughing while the garden falls?And I smile to see the blood that love can breed Just a war machine You’re a war machine You’re a war machine My love oh my lover

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These abandoned buildings, they don't make a sound They just cast their shadows all across this town Their drawn-out faces, man they're dragging me down These broken windows, they've seen too much They know all the secrets, they just stare and judge And they're always listening, so I'm keeping my mouth shut I want to set fire to this town and put the car in gear Watch it all burn down in my rear view mirror Gonna turn the radio up, and we can disappear Watch the sun come up any place but here These haunted houses with their curtains drawn This desolation, it goes on and on This lonely sidewalk I've been walking all night long This small town feeling, it's wearing thin These walls around me, they're closing in It's a broken record, and it's making my head spin I want to set fire to this town and put the car in gear Watch it all burn down in my rear view mirror Gonna turn the radio up, and we can disappear Watch the sun come up any place but here

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Living in the future The future's been a long time coming Caught up in the race we're running Yeah, we're running out You listen to the rumors Listen to the things they're saying Get caught up in the noise they're making Well it drowns you out I can see you running with the wrong crowd Just trying to find your way out, your way back home again And I can see you standing in your own way Just trying to make it through your day like everybody Now your standing in the shadows Looking for a space to crawl in You notice that the sky is falling Yeah it's falling down Drowning in the shallows Keep your head above the surface Fight against the undercurrent Til it drags you out I can see you running with the wrong crowd Just trying to find your way out, your way back home again And I can see you standing in your own way Just trying to make it through your day like everybody I was born in the nineteen-seventies There's a sound fading out like a memory