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Troubled Times and Skylines

from Folk MixTape Vol. 1 by Tim McBride

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Troubled Times and Skylines
You put a Chevrolet onto a highway
lit with love and never looked back
The cylinders pounding as hard as your heart
as the sky dropped a curtain of black
And when the romantic hopes and the inside jokes
all turned to lo-fi breakup songs
You tried to hold your head high
and pretend you were right
when everything was clearly going wrong
And you were fueled on despair
dying more than your jet black hair
Now you’re northbound with the pedal down
Diving into trouble in dried up town
good times gone and darkness coming around
Goodbye Eastbay bloodlines, hello Northwest nights
You never felt so lost and lonesome,
run over by the rolling dice
You wanted so bad to know real love
and understand what it could mean
That you threw yourself head over heels
onto the gears of it’s machine
And when mercy finally hit a kill switch
there was not much left to save
Just a couple of damaged kids who managed
to somehow turn out okay
And you were fueled on despair
dying more than your jet black hair
Westbound with the pedal down
diving into trouble in a dried up town
Good times gone and darkness coming around
Goodbye Steel City Skyline
Hello Northwest Nights
You never felt so lost and lonesome
Run over by the rolling dice
Seven years down turned eleven years now
Your dreams of love never died
Cast off the crown of the bad end of town
And soberly swallowed your pride
Awoke to the sound of the old friend you found
A voice you let troubled times hide
With no walls around you dug your heart from the ground
And you were open to the ride
Goodbye , Lonely Nights under grey skies
No more living like you’re just waiting to die
You’ve been feeling broken
so long you can’t remember
The last time you laid your love out on the line
Goodbye Lonely Nights and grey skies
Hello love of your life.

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from Folk MixTape Vol. 1, released March 18, 2014

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