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I stood outside the carnival
and watched the waves crash on the beach
and I wondered if I could ever be alone
and I brushed aside her hair
and felt a slap of cold November air
as I watched her wild horses
leaving bruises on my soul

I remember her in dresses
calm like summer or a mistress
but I spoke too soon and often about love
picture this, she said
I'll disappear when your skies are red
and show my face when you're lonely
And you’re falling down the road

And I wonder why I can’t go home

Shiny buttons flash like cash
And I’ve seen ‘em all too much, too fast
and I thrown them in the fountain
And I wish them all away
But I’m stranded and I’m hopeless
Fired up and dusted, never trusted
strung up like your Christmas lights,
I’m torn down in the Spring

But I wait and watch and listen
Though my senses dull and missing
As I watch the stronger kill the weak
And I dream of meadows killed by streets

And I wonder why I can’t go home

So now I sleep among the brushfires
Where crime and punishment survives
And the silence in my heart
Believes the silence from my phone
But justice is so blind and dumb
When my better half is on the run
She’s strung out on the starlight
With great distances between the night
So send a postcard if you will
And I’ll hang it on my wall until
The words dry up and blow away
Or maybe take me on a midnight cruise
Above the winners and the losers
And bathe me in your white light
Before you send me on my way..

And I wonder why I can’t go home

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from The Carnival Sessions (Full CD), released February 15, 2013
Written by Dave Boylan. Engineered and Produced by Steve Devita

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Thanks for visiting us online. Managing songs is like herding cats...old revisions, new revisions, added a solo here, a backing vocal there, blah blah blah. Hoping to update this as we finish the songs...always a few in progress. Look for some country'ish stuff over the next few months. Yee-Haw.
Thanks.
DB

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