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From the recording Boulevard
Everybody’s Leavin’ Town
These old streets just don’t seem the same
without my friends by the door
The all-night restaurant don’t know my name
it’s a cup of coffee and no one’s to blame
if everybody’s gone off searching for fame
and I find that more and more
The empty basement where I once learned my songs
is just a shop for selling hides
And all the faces seem from another time
You’re sellin’ or you’re bummin’ for a dime
and I hung around and waited til I realized the line
was heading out, not going inside
I heard a train whistle blow in my heart
I tuned my car radio
Everybody’s leavin’ town
and I’m the last one to go
Duke’s Dilemma’s really no choice at all
and any way you turn seems wrong
I met a girl with her guitar inside her case
Told me “don’t it always seem to be your fate
Just when you finally get there, you find it’s too late
and it’s all gone”
Last night I stood in a café of tears
listiening to a guitar man
Singing his songs like he’s leavin’ them behind
Beatin’ in his anger at the strings on his mind
And all the people tapping on an empty glass of beer
Nodding at the sawdust like no one could hear
that scream from the canyon floor
Marcie Jane
Marcie Jane says come on down
to the river and walk me round in circles,
and please don't ask me why
Marcie Jane she knows the score
been around and seen much more
than I believe I could ever hope to try
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And she says one of these days you're gonna go too far
climb too high and cross that star
step in one of those open cracks in your mind
But I want to follow every ocean wave
play the symphonies I'll never play
and someday tell that Marcie Jane
goodbye
I'm dancing down on a full moon road
going nowhere and lost in circles
and falling on a tiptoed ledge and singing
Marcie Jane she takes my hand
makes me love her right where I stand
til I'm sinking through and that morning sun comes aching
Take me baby I'm six feet down
cross my heart I'm six feet down
and lying on my back just ain't my style
Burn me baby I can't feel a thing
shake my bones loose and make me sing
I've got to be somewhere flying miles and miles