magnetic fields:charm of the highway strip

song copyrighted 1993 by Stephin Merritt

crd by Benjamin Flynn

when the open road is closing in

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time - measured in dotted yellow lines has past you by
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and I never said an honest thing to you in all my life
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hard times go slowly
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and the good times never come
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the world is a motor inn in a iowa highway slum
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when the open road is closing in
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and you can't say where it ends and you begin
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when every truck stop dive's another five years off your life
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when the open road is closing in
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and the dotted yellow lines begin to spin
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when the sky begins to fall on everything you like at all
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you won't be coming home again

ciao you keep on drowning in the roads between the towns
now i have been closing all the shutters in the house
well i know you'll be back when every tree is turning brown
you'll find the house is empty and the swingset's fallen down