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Dear Lynn,
Sometimes I am afraid that I’m no good anymore
that I’m soiled like those sheets we stained and the marks we left upon the floor
After hours in that bookstore when we were lying as low as we could
as our love grew more than anyone could stand
I’ve still got pictures of the old shop looking at me from the wall
and sometimes those back rooms haunt my mind; you were my closest call
We were surrounded by a choir that sang gossip as their tune
We were all the news that mountain town could stand
When we would hide away as thick as thieves and find a place to lay you down
To this day I ain’t sure how we never burned that fucker to the ground
as I died and was reborn inside of you
You were full of life and wonder when I fled from Roanoke
and you hopped a train looking for pieces to the hearts that we broke
and though your postcards from the Badlands proclaimed our love as truth
the ones from the Redwoods said the wheels fell off
Yet they were stacked up in my mailbox chronologically reversed
and when I read them out of order it was like some gypsy curse
that resurrected up our love inside my head
On your side it was dead and blue and cradled in the cold, cold ground
Now I’m waiting gently and I’m looking out for my Marie
You know her lease is up this summer and if she moves north to the city
then I swear to god I’ll do my best, I will treat her like a queen
Just like the way I hope your new man looks out for you
We’re gonna get high every evening and we’re gonna make love everyday
and I plan to be a better man no matter what the choirs say
about the love that you and I lived through

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from Tucumcari, New Mexico and Other Songs, released November 20, 2012

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