97 Hillside Road
album: Affected by the Moon (2002), track 2 of 13
author: Chuck Pyle
publisher: Bee 'n' Flower Music BMI
What was I thinking Coming back to our town To the cabin on Hillside Road I feel myself sinking With the sun going down And it don't seem that long ago And you're calling my name Coming through the screen door All up about something That you sewed This is such a sacred place Oh God, I miss your face Up on 97 Hillside Road The whole town's asleep I kick a rock down the street I'm trying to get out of my head Praying that it's true I did all I could do But I'm losing this battle to regret It's 1986 And your little boy's bike needs fixing I fell into your eyes that day From a tiny beginning, We set a great wheel spinning And that wheel just spun away All up and down The valley is the sound Of that mighty diesel engine roar In the freezin' rain That old Santa Fe coal train On the Front Range corridor Now some things are just true And I'll always love you I still can't believe that you're gone This is my rendition of an old tradition It's my farewell good-bye, My farewell good-by, It's my great American good-bye song
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