roadtrip
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To take the long way
Away from
Home [...]
How to make peace with that purring engine,
Subtle vibrato?
Don't you just feel trapped inside the house but at the same time you're not, you are free?
Irritated with everyone around, I need to go on the run forever.
Another new place;
Another new road.
Another new school;
Another new home.
Each move just the last.
Pack up your clothes;
Pack up your shoes.
Pack up your books;
From sandblast windows out I spy
a flock of gulls in flight
and I yearn to coast the ocean,
on a charter, strong and light.
Sail o'er the deepest trenches
With a map of stars at night.
Ever since I was a little girl I was never afraid of going somewhere new; I enjoyed a change in scenery,
I'm a true Southern girl who ran in the street barefoot and didn't mind a bit of greenery,
It’s past midnight, and at that, past my bed time.
I watch as dad helps my mother load the boxes,
Into her royal blue Volkswagen.
It’s drizzling yet no one seems to care
The thought of a slippery road never seemed
