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Going to Texas

from First Terminus by Tyler Key

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A sober reflection or a piece of my mind
tonsils cut out on the telephone line
a shipwrecked angel or a pale valentine
a payphone at a truck stop or a credit card declined
and how many exit signs we've never passed by.
No love ain't a promise nor a bud on a vine.

I've heard of a river, don't know where it flows
The wind in all the country songs, wild it blows
You've been taking on water, you learn how to row
Made a sail of feathers to see how high it would go
and how many exit signs will fill up the sky?
No, love ain't direction nor a pilot at night.

The cities where we settle we'll never call home
paper towns and junctions feel a little closer to the bone
I've heard voices from the graveyard of folks I've never known
high up on the hill where our shadow gardens grow
"how many exit signs?" they all moan and repeat
No, love ain't a number nor a dirty white sheet.

Where fossil and bone make the bridges we mend
and cables suspend us like strings that can't bend
Where have we gone and what letters we'll send?
Will they end up as children or as birds on the wind
or as exit signs we've never passed by
or love in the language or a sharp sharp knife?

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from First Terminus, released October 12, 2014

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Tyler Key Athens, Georgia

Athens, GA songwriter. Loud folk rock. This American Life as heard through a megaphone. Proud to be a bitter southerner.

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