Prophetstown - Elway

It’s a sordid sort of feeling

When you learn to live with spite

It’s a desperate kind of living

When you’re burning up the night

Getting sick of all the drinking

Getting sicker every day

Cause I can’t say the things I really want to say

I remember when Chicago seemed a million miles away

I was chained by quiet longing on that Independence Day

A month across the country built in all I learned from you

I sang those thoughts away just like I always do

It’s been an age, it’s been an era, it’s been a lifetime

But I’ll remember every step

I’ll cross my heart when we cross paths across the country

Please just remember I’m not the one who left

And I never will

All the aches and shits and quivers hurdle in with morning light

And a somber sense of longing steals my breath and grips my spine

I can feel the salty ocean suck the moisture from my skin

And I know staying here will surely do us in

And I walked on down to that lonely shoal, where my best hopes go to die

I thought I will keep you in my pen, until the ink wells all go dry

And I’ll keep it like a secret every day